HMCo #413p Courier Amc-72

"Courier (AMc 72)
Accentor Class Coastal Minesweeper: Laid down 31 March 1941 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, RI; Launched 17 May 1941; Placed in service 11 October 1941; Sold in 1946. Fate unknown.
Specifications: Displacement 190 t.; Length 97' 1"; Beam 22'; Draft 9'; Speed 10 kts.; Complement 17; Armament one .50 cal. machine gun; Propulsion one 400bhp Superior K.N.B. diesel engine, one shaft. " (Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/03072.htm, retrieved March 16, 2007.)

"Courier (AMc-72). Built in 1941 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Rhode Island.
Named after the occupation and operated in the 1st Naval District at Boston from 1941 to 1947.
Registered in 1948 by Roland Styron, of Cash Corner, North Carolina, as the 138-ton fishing boat Courier, homeported at Washington, call sign WXKM and WA3928 in 1949.
Registered in 1950 by Lorenza Scola, 174 Newbury St., Portland, Maine, as the 138-ton fishing boat Courier, call sign WA3928.
Registered in 1951 by Courier, Inc., 45 Custom House Wharf, Portland, Maine, as the 138-ton fishing boat Florence and Lucy II, call sign WA3928.
Registered in 1952 by George I. Lewis, 26 Highland St., Portland, as the 138-ton fishing boat Courier, call sign WA3928.
Registered in 1956 by Russell, Inc., 85 Exchange St., Portland, as the 138-ton fishing boat Courier, homeported at Bath, call sign WA3928. Burned on January 15, 1965, about 80 miles off Cape Henry, Virginia.
ON 254402." (Source: Williams, Greg H. World War II Vessels in Private Hands. Jefferson, NC, 2013, p. 114.)

"[Item Description:] Printed letter beginning with 'With reference to your inquiry of December 31st addressed direct to our Home Office at Ampere, New Jersey, and forwarded to this office for attention concerning DC motor drives and control for operation of cable reel of U. S. Navy Mine Sweepers [probably #411p MARABOUT AMC-50, #412p OSTRICH AMC-51, #413p COURIER AMC-72, and #414p DEFIANCE AMC-73], when the writer recently called at your office concerning this inquiry we were advised that the motor capacity had been decreased to 5 HP and that the use of brakes was unlikely. We are accordingly pleased to quote you now (and will forward supplementary quotation shortly on control) on suitable motors conforming in full to specifications as we interpret them and offering motors at both 1750 EPM and 1150 EPM.'. With technical sheet titled 'Dimensions of Form F Direct Current Machines'." (Source: Crocker-Wheeler Electric Manuf. Co. Letter to Brightman, Thomas (Herreshoff Manufacturing Co.). MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.131. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Motors. 1941-01-23.)
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"[Item Description:] Hulls, anchors and pipe berth cut-out models and diagrams. Among others deckline cut-outs for BETTY ANN, #300p SHADOW III, NOMAD, Fishers Island 31-footer, Fishers Island 23-footer, Sub Chaser 110ft x 18ft, 11ft-6in Boat [built from Plan] 76-17 [now named Plan 28-21] (76-33 [now named Plan 28-23]) for Mr Tiffany's #934 [HARLEQUIN] [this may be a reference to #191901es], 18ft-9in Launch [#191002ep] used on #692 [WESTWARD], 14ft Rowboat [#190912es] [built from Plan] 76-14 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 19ft-4 1/2in x 5ft-4in Launch [#191304ep] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 14ft-8in Gasoline Launch [#190307ep] for 590 [#590s INGOMAR], 10ft-3in Boat [# ?] for 376 [#376p ESLOMA], 18ft Dories [#191729es] for #323 [SP-2840], #293 [Power Launch for #215p ROAMER], Vosper [Torpedo Boats built from 1943 - 1944), AMC Minesweeper [#411p, #412p, #413p, #414p], 16ft-10in x 5ft-1in [#191307es Colonia Sailing Cutter] for #719 [VAGRANT II], 711 Class [New York 50s], [dinghies #191308es and #191309es] for #722 [KATOURA], 12ft [dinghy #191106es ?] for 698 [#698s WESTWARD], 25ft-10in x 6ft-1in [built from Plan] 2-83 [#191301ep Owner Launch for #722s Katoura], 11ft-0in Rowboat [# ?] between davits on #251 [LANG SYNE] Feb [19]06, 23ft-4in x 6ft-4in [#287p Stock launch later Crew Launch for #722s KATOURA]. Generally undated, the last vessels referred to appear to date from 1944." (Source: MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collections, Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection Item HH.6.130. Cut-out Models and Diagrams. Box HAFH.6.4B, Folder Models and Diagrams. No date (1944 and earlier).)
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Note: This list of archival documents contains in an unedited form any and all which mention #413p Courier Amc-72 even if just in a cursory way. Permission to digitize, transcribe and display is gratefully acknowledged.

• Olive ex-Sayonara and #413p Courier (MIT Museum-made index card)
• Note: The vessel index cards comprise two sets of a total of some 3200 cards about vessels built by HMCo, with dimensions and information regarding drawings, later or former vessel names, and owners. They were compiled from HMCo's early days until 1920 and added to in later decades, apparently by Hart Nautical curator William A. Baker and his successors. While HMCo seems to have used only one set of index cards, all sorted by name and, where no name was available, by number, later users at MIT apparently divided them into two sets of cards, one sorted by vessel name, the other by vessel number and greatly expanded the number of cards. Original HMCo cards are usually lined and almost always punched with a hole at bottom center while later cards usually have no hole, are unlined, and often carry substantially less information. All cards are held by the Francis Russell Hart Nautical Collections of the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Mass.

Year: 1941
E/P/S: P
No.: 413p
Name: Defiance [sic, i.e. Courier] (AMc 72)
OA: 97' 1"
LW: 92'

Source: Vermilya, Peter and Maynard Bray. "Transcription of the HMCo. Construction Record." Unpublished database, ca. 2000.

Note: The transcription of the HMCo Construction Record by Peter Vermilya and Maynard Bray was performed independently (and earlier) than that by Claas van der Linde. A comparison of the two transcriptions can be particularly useful in those many cases where the handwriting in the Construction Record is difficult to decipher.

"Built in 175 days (setup to delivered; equivalent to 2171 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"Displacement 190 [long or short?] t." (Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/03072.htm, last visit March 16, 2007.)

Note: Research notes contain information about a vessel that is often random and unedited but has been deemed useful for future research.