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YP-389
ex-AMc-202

Sunk 19 June 1942
YP-388 Class District Patrol Craft:

  • Built in 1941 as Cohasset by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, MA for R. O'Brien and Company
  • Delivered 9 October 1941
  • Acquired by the Navy 6 February 1942 and designated as a Coastal Minesweeper, AMc-202
  • Reclassified as a District Patrol Craft, YP-389, 1 May 1942
  • Sunk 19 June 1942 approximately 10 miles off Diamond Head, Cape Hatteras, NC by gunfire from the German submarine U-701 at 34° 50' N, 75° 20' W
  • YP-389 could return fire only with her machine guns because the firing pin in the 3"/50 gun was broken
  • She sank after one and a half hours.

    Specifications

  • Displacement 170 t.
  • Length 110' 6"
  • Beam 28'
  • Draft 8' (fwd), 11' 6" (aft)
  • Speed 10 kts.
  • Complement 25
  • Armament: One 3"/23 dual purpose mount, two .30 cal. Lewis machine guns and two depth charge tracks
  • Propulsion: Diesel, one shaft.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Trawler Cohasset
    AMc-202 399k Original photo: c. February 1942
    New York Navy Yard
    Before conversion to YP-389. Astern is Onyx (PYc 5)
    U.S. Navy photo from the Virginian-Pilot
    Replacement photo: Cohasset, undergoing conversion at the Marine Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y., 14 February 1942, with coastal patrol yacht Onyx (PYc-5) (ex-Pegasus) astern and Cohasset’s sistership, Lynn, at far left in foreground, also undergoing transformation from trawler to patrol vessel (YP-388)
    Bureau of Ships photo BS-32348 from the National Archives    		 Original photo: Gary Priolo
    Replacement photo: Naval History and Heritage Command
    AMc-202 399k Cohasset, undergoing conversion at the Marine Basin, Brooklyn, N.Y., 14 February 1942
    National Archives photo    		 NOAA Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
    Added photo 18 March 2022
    YP-389
    AMc-202 399k Crew List after sinking
    National Archives photo    		 NOAA Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
    Added photo 18 March 2022
    AMc-202 263k Wreck of the YP-389
    Photo from NOAA    		 Mike Mohl
    AMc-202 190k Original photo: 7 August 2009
    In this composite side-scan sonar image released by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the wreckage of a World War II patrol boat is seen in approximately 300 feet of water off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC YP-389, a converted trawler used by the Navy for Atlantic coastline protection during World War II, sank June 19, 1942 off North Carolina during a battle with German submarine U-701
    NOAA photo 090909-N-0000X-001
    Replacement photo: NOAA    		 Original photo: Tony Cowart
    Replacement photo: Mike Mohl
    Commanding Officers
    01LT R. J. Phillips, USN1 May 1942 - 19 June 1942
    Courtesy Joseph M. Radigan (of blessed memory)
    View the YP-389)
    DANFS History entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website
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