Editing USS YP-422

{{Short description|United States Navy yard patrol boat}}
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 |acquired=4 June 1942
 |commissioned=28 July 1942
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*[[code letters]]: NFVP<ref name=USNRCSB>{{cite book|title=U.S. Navy Radio Call Sign Book -ENCODE - Section 18 - U. S. NAVY SHIPS BY CLASSES|  date=22 April 1944| url=https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/CallSigns/CallSigns-18.html|publisher=United States Navy|page= }}</ref>
*{{ICS|November}}{{ICS|Foxtrot}}{{ICS|Victor}}{{ICS|Papa}}
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 |type= [[Patrol boat]]
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           *2 × .30 cal. [[machine gun]]s
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'''USS ''YP-422''''' was a [[United States Navy]] yard patrol (YP) boat that served the [[United States Navy]] in [[World War II]] from 1942 to 1943. Built in 1941 as the fishing trawler ''Mist'', she was acquired by the [[US Navy]] in June 1942 and was converted for naval use by [[George Lawley & Son]] of [[Neponset, Massachusetts]]. She was commissioned on 28 July 1942 and was put into service to patrol the waters around the [[Boston Navy Yard]].<ref>[http://www.navsource.net/archives/14/31422.htm  NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive: USS YP-422]</ref> The vessel was lightly armed with a 3-inch gun and two .30 caliber machine guns.<ref name="Judge-found">{{cite news|last=Mallia| first=Joseph |title=Judge found Hubbard lied about achievements | work=Boston Herald | date=1 March 1998}}</ref>

==Service history==
''YP-422'' was briefly commanded by Lieutenant [[L. Ron Hubbard]], later known as the controversial founder of [[Scientology]].  Hubbard was assigned to Lawley & Son Shipyard, in the [[Neponset, Massachusetts|Neponset]] area of [[Boston]], Massachusetts in connection with the conversion of the ''YP-422'' from 25 June to 28 July 1942, when she was placed in commission with Hubbard in command.

Hubbard was relieved of his command on 1 October 1942, a few weeks after ''YP-422'' underwent a 27-hour training exercise in August 1942. A dispatch sent by the Commandant of the [[Boston Navy Yard]] on 25 September 1942 described Hubbard as "not temperamentally fitted for independent command".<ref>{{cite book|last=Atack|first=Jon|authorlink=Jon Atack|title=[[A Piece of Blue Sky]]|page=[https://archive.org/details/pieceofblueskysc00atac/page/74 74]|publisher=Carol Publishing Group|year=1990|isbn=0-8184-0499-X}}</ref> Ironically, Hubbard was then given command of the submarine chaser [[USS PC-815|USS ''PC-815'']] which also resulted in his being officially reprimanded and relieved of command.

In early 1943, ''YP-422'' was dispatched to the Pacific theater of operations to support the [[Solomon Islands campaign]]. However, she was lost on 23 April 1943 after striking Tumbo Reef, three miles south-east of the entrance to North Bulari Passage<ref>{{cite book|last=Cressman|first=Robert|title=The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II|url=https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/157|page=[https://archive.org/details/TheOfficialChronologyOfTheUSNavyInWorldWarII/page/157 157]|publisher=Naval Institute Press|year=1999|isbn=1-55750-149-1}}</ref>{{snd}}a break in the reefs near [[Nouméa]], [[New Caledonia]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Pacific Islands. Sailing Directions |editor=[[Admiralty (United Kingdom)|Admiralty]] Hydrographic Office |publisher=[[Eyre & Spottiswoode]] as [[Queen's Printer#United Kingdom|Queen's Printer]] |location=London |year=1900 |volume=2 |edition=3rd |chapter=VII: Uen Island to Nouméa |page=313 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i1MPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA313 |access-date=2022-04-10 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Military career of L. Ron Hubbard]]
*{{USS|PC-815}}

==References==
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[[Category:World War II patrol boats of the United States]]
[[Category:1941 ships]]
[[Category:L. Ron Hubbard]]
[[Category:Yard patrol boats of the United States Navy]]


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