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YP-65

District Patrol Craft

Built by unknown builder, Nova Scotia

Completed for unknown owner, Weymouth, NS, as civilian craft Pronto (British ON 156837), October 1930

Captured as a rum-runner with 2,400 gallons of grain alcohol aboard by USCGC Yamacraw off Georgetown, SC, 20 January 1936

Transferred to Navy as YP-65, 17 July 1936

Loaned to Volunteer Naval Reserve, Port Isabel, TX, 07 August 1936 ¹

Appears to have primarily been used for recreational fishing

Noted as beached and for sale in turning basin, Port Isabel, TX, May 1942

Further fate unknown

^{1. Contemporary local newspapers state she was donated by Navy to the Rio Grande Valley Navy Club, Harlingen TX.}

Specifications:
Displacement 21 tons
Length 71' 3"
Beam 13' 2"
Draft 6' 0"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament unknown
Propulsion diesel

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
1217990102	158k	The captured rum-runner *Pronto* alongside *Yamacraw* at Charleston, SC, 21 January 1936. US Coast Guard photo		-

There is no DANFS history record available for YP-65 at NavSource

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