HMCo #504p APc89

"Model of AMc Mine Sweepers [preceding two words crossed out and replaced with] Transports, Apr[il] 1942.
Scale 3/8" = 1.
Templets[sic] made from Bureau of Ships Plans 446519 [and] 446513 and Eldridge-McInnis.
Design No. 287-C-728 Plan No 1.
In order to come fair the model differs from lines as follows:
Waterlines are fuller amidships with more tumble home.
Buttocks are raised forward of sternpost, deadwood faired.
Frame spaces 18.4".
Stations are 3-frame spaces or 4.6', except # 11 - # 11A which is 4-frame spaces or 6.132'.
Deduct 2 3/4" for planking.
Deduct 2 7/8" for deck.
Load W.L. is 10'-0" above base.
Stem as per Eldridge-McInnis plan E-McI. Hull No. 274, Sheet 1.
Bureau of Ships Plan No. 446513." (Source: Herreshoff, A. Sidney DeW.? [Penciled note in Offset Booklet HH.4.082.] Haffenreffer-Herreshoff Collection, MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA.)

"Class: APC-1
Design: Navy APC-1
Displacement (tons): 161 light, 258 lim.
Dimensions (feet): 103.25' oa, 98.2' wl x 21.25' e x 9.25' lim.
Original Armament: 4-20mm single
Later armaments: 2-20mm single (1943: APc 87-90, 93-98, 110-111)
Complement: 21 (1944)
Speed (kts.): 10
Propulsion (HP): 400
Machinery: Diesel, 1 screw
...
APc-89; [contracted: ] 2 Sep 42; [builder: ] Herreshoff Mfg; [keel laid: ] 29 Oct 42; [launched: ] 13 May 43; [commissioned: ] 14 Jun 43; [decommissioned: ] 14 Feb 44; [struck: ] 26 Nov 48; [disposed: ] 10 Aug 49; [fate: ] Sold; [MA sale: ] --; [note: ] Decommissioned and placed in service 14 Feb 44 at Bermuda. Assigned 19 Jun 46 to Fleet Camera Party in Tenth Naval District. To Norfolk for disposal ca. Feb 48. Sold at Norfolk, delivered to buyer prior 11 Sep 49. Merc. BEAR (research vessel?) 1951, off list 1952-53.
...
Of this large class, only ten units, APc 85-94, were assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. One was transferred to Ecuador, and the others were soon relegated to use as personnel ferries for local naval facilites and eventually disarmed, placed out of commission and put in service with reduced crews as district craft. In July 1945 their passenger capacity was set at 250 persons (with the addition of ballast and removal of armament), and in this role they were found to be much more suitable than LCIL's or LCM's. In September 1945 CinCLant wanted to use two at Bermuda, one at Newport, and six at Casco Bay, Maine. These were the only vessels of this class to see postwar service. ..." (Source: Roberts, Stephen S. "Class: APC-1." Compiled October 26, 2008. http://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/APC/APC01.html, retrieved October 25, 2011.)

"APc-89. Built in 1943 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co., Bristol, Rhode Island.
Commissioned on June 14, 1943, under Ens. J. W. Martin, USNR. Operated around Bermuda and decommissioned on February 14, 1944.
Registered in 1951 by Lindsley O. Butts, 224 Chestnut St., West Newton, Massachusetts, as the 190-ton vessel Bear, homeported at Boston. Out of documentation in 1953 and awarded USCG Motorboat No. 4 N 700.
Registered in 1965 by the Riga Fish Corp., 401 County St., New Bedford, Massachusetts, as the 163-ton fishing boat Bear, call sign WD5632.
Registered in 1970 by the Tychos Fishing Corp., 197 Hawthorn St., New Bedford, as the 163-ton fishing boat Tychos, call sign WD5632.
Registered in 1971 by Frank F. Foti, 521 Harris Ave., Warren, Rhode Island, as the 163-ton mackerel fishing boat Tychos, homeported at New Bedford, Massachusetts, call sign WD5632. Out of documentation in 1975.
ON 261403." (Source: Williams, Greg H. World War II Vessels in Private Hands. Jefferson, NC, 2013, p. 17.)

"Twenty-two of these 'jacks of all trades' were built between October 1942 and July 1943 --- with an average of nearly one of these 103-footers each week. Each cost $145,750, and they appear to have been contracted for in two batches, with the lead ship [#425p] of the class (APc 1) included in the first batch of ten; APc 85 [#500p] through APc 96 [#511p] constituted the second batch. It was an impressive rate of production, especially so because the APcs were built concurrently with eight 71-foot British Vosper torpedo boats, which were built in the South Construction Shop." (Source: Bray, Maynard and Carlton Pinheiro. Herreshoff of Bristol. Brooklin, Maine, 1989, p. 226-227.)

Year: 1943
E/P/S: P
No.: 504p
Name: APc89
OA: 103' 2 1/2"
LW: 98' 1 1/2"

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.

"The design of the APc Coastal Transport Class was based on that of the Eldredge McInnis-designed 93ft AMc Minesweeper, lengthened by a 6ft plug. [Information based on a plaque at the Herreshoff Marine Museum.]" (Source: van der Linde, Claas. December 14, 2008.)

"Built in 253 days (contract to launch; equivalent to $577/day, 885 lbs displacement/day)." (Source: van der Linde, Claas. January 16, 2024.)

"[Displacement 100 long tons.]" (Source: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/23/23009.htm, retrieved March 29, 2011.)

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