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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YO-77

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Uniform - Whiskey - Juliet
NUWJ

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - China Service Medal (extended) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

YO-65 Class Fuel Oil Barge:

Built by Brunswick Marine Construction Corp., Brunswick, GA (YN 138)

Laid down, 05 July 1943

Launched, 14 December 1943

Completed and placed in service as YO-77, 06 April 1944

Sailed from Savannah, GA, to Cristobal, CZ, 30 April - 19 May 1944

Assigned to Espiritu Santo, June-August 1944

Assigned to duty with Third Fleet at Manus, 11 August 1944 - 14 January 1945

Assigned to Kossol, Palu Islands, January - February 1945

Assigned to duty at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, 15 February - August 1945

Assigned to duty with China Service Group at Shanghai, August 1945 - 1946

Following World War II YO-77 was assigned to Occupation and China service in the Far East for the following periods:

Navy Occupation Service Medal	China Service Medal (extended)
3 September to 26 December 1945	27 September 1945 to 1 May 1949
4 to 7 May 1949

Placed in reserve in Sixth Naval District by 1949

Placed out of service, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, 01 June 1974

Sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service to Gulf Metals Corp., Miami, FL. for $36,666.66, 27 September 1974

Registered to Corona Del Mar Shipping Co., Ltd., Georgetown, Cayman Islands, as vegetable oil/molasses tanker Corona Del Mar (ON 373055), 1977

Registered to Gold Star Financial Services Inc. SA, Georgetown, Cayman Islands, renamed Christina, 1984

Final disposition, deleted from registers, 1999

Specifications:
Displacement 440 tons (lt), 1390 tons (fl)
Length 174'
Beam 33'
Draft 13' (max.)
Speed unknown
Complement 1 officer, 20 enlisted
Armament none
Propulsion

one Union Diesel engine

single propeller, 600shp

Size	Image Description	Source
107k	YO-77 crew members, Elmer C. Gargel Jr., Johnson, Scalese, Jake, at Shanghai, China circa 1945.	Dan Gargel for his father Elmer C. Gargel Jr., YO-77
103k	YO-77 mascot Dillenger, Shanghai, China circa 1945.	Dan Gargel for his father Elmer C. Gargel Jr., YO-77
116k	YO-77 skipper and crew member Johnson, Shanghai, China circa 1945.	Dan Gargel for his father Elmer C. Gargel Jr., YO-77
52k	YO-77 at anchor on the Whangpoo River at Shanghai, China in 1946.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
277k	YO-77 underway on the Whangpoo River at Shanghai, China in 1946.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
67k	YO-77 moored pierside at Shanghai, China in 1946.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
47k	YO-77 moored pierside at Shanghai, China in 1946 with the large harbor tug Nacheninga (YTB-520) moored astern of her.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
148k	Aboard YO-77 four Chief Petty Officers pose for a photo at Shanghai, China in 1946.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
109k	CPO Keyes (Skipper) of YO-77 and SM1/c H. Jordan pose for a photograph with a White Russian family aboard YO-77 at Shanghai, China in 1946.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
73k	YO-77 crew members on a Sunday liberty in the countryside near Shanghai, China in 1946. Note the sailor on the left with the Colt .45 pistol in his hands.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77
78k	YO-77 crew member caught a barracuda and it was served for dinner, date and location unknown.	Herbert Jordan QM/SM3c, YO-77