Relief in Merritt & Chapman service
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Relief |
Owner |
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Operator | 1918–19: United States Navy |
Port of registry | New York |
Builder | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, DE |
Completed | 1907 |
Acquired | for US Navy, 8 August 1918 |
Commissioned | into US Navy, 19 August 1918 |
Decommissioned | 14 May 1919 |
Identification |
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Fate | scrapped by 1953 |
General characteristics | |
Type | salvage tug |
Tonnage | 828 GRT, 563 NRT |
Displacement | 1,386 tons |
Length | |
Beam | 30.2 ft (9.2 m) |
Draft | 15 ft 5 in (4.70 m) |
Depth | 20.6 ft (6.3 m) |
Decks | 2 |
Installed power | 137 NHP |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 14+1⁄2 knots (27 km/h) |
Complement | 58 |
Sensors and processing systems | by 1930: wireless direction finding |
USS Relief (SP-2170) was a salvage tug that was built in Delaware in 1907 and scrapped in 1953. She served in the United States Navy in the First World War from 1918 to 1919, and provided civilian support to the Navy in the Second World War from 1942 to 1945. She belonged to the Merritt & Chapman Derrick & Wrecking Co, which in the 1920s became Merritt-Chapman & Scott. She rescued the steam yacht Warrior in 1914, and survived a collision with a US Navy patrol vessel in 1918.