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YO-24

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
YO-20 Class Fuel Oil Barge:
  • Built by Tank Ship Building Corp, Newburgh, NY (YN 14)
  • Contract awarded, 17 December 1918
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered to Navy, 01 June 1920
  • Allocated to Eleventh Naval District, 1920 - about 1941
  • Assigned to Fourteenth Naval District at Pearl Harbor, about 1941 - October 1942
  • Towed from Pearl Harbor to Noumea by Prometheus (AR-3), 07 October - 03 November 1942
  • Assigned as station tanker at Noumea, November 1942 - late 1943
  • Stationed at Purvis Bay, late 1943 - early 1944
  • Stationed at Seeadler Harbor, early 1944 - 1945
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 21 January 1946
  • Final Disposition, destroyed (presume scuttled off Manus), 12 January 1946
    Specifications:
    Hull steel
    Displacement 327 tons displacement
    Length 165' 9" overall
    Beam 25' 1"
    Draft unknown
    Cargo Capacity 3,563 barrels
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    steam
    single propeller, 218hp
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    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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