Talk:USS YP-278

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Sourcing and naming article

Navsource page on this ship is at: http://www.navsource.org/archives/14/31278.htm where it's quite plain that during service to the US Navy this ship never held the name Liberty. A more proper title for this article would be USS YP-278; figuring that PY was used by mistake to mean YP. Ship was never commissioned but placed in service as YP-278. Further evidence to this is that DANFS has no listing of a Liberty of this designation and time period. Searching the Naval Historical Center website turns up no information on USS Liberty (PY 278), YP 278, or any numbered craft with 278 in the title. --Brad (talk) 22:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

If you read the ship's history more carefully, you'll learn that the ship's original name was the Fishing Trawler Liberty, a name that hung around after it had been commandeered and retrofitted, and that it had trawled for tuna fish for five years before being seized and retrofitted by the Navy. Otherwise, you are right: the ship was never designated a "USS" anything; just merely YP (pronounced "yippie") 278. My father, the late Lt. D. Dudley Bloom, its commander from Thanksgiving 1944 through the end of July 1945, always called it "the two-seventy-eight" and only recalled the name "Liberty" when I asked him whether the ship had ever had any other name. Subsequently, it went by the names FV Sun Splendor and FV Invader before wearing out its usefulness.Dick Bloom, Lansdale, Pennsylvania 18:16, 19 July 2021 (UTC)