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YOG-93 / IX-523

YOG-5 Class Gasoline Barge (Self-propelled):
  • Laid down, 16 April 1945, at RTC Shipbuilding Corp, Camden, N.J.
  • Launched, 8 September 1945
  • Commissioned USS YOG-93, (date unknown)
  • Decommissioned (date unknown) and placed in service on that date
  • Placed out of service (date unknown)
  • Laid up in the Reserve Fleet
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 May 2005
  • Withdrawn from the Reserve Fleet and redesignated Miscellaneous Unclassified IX-523
  • Assigned to the Expeditionary Warfare Training Group Atlantic, Norfolk, VA. (EWTGLANT) for use as a Boarding Party training hulk
  • In service at NAB Little Creek as a training vessel for EWTGLANT
  • Transferred to the Marime Administration for disposal, date unknown
  • Reefed off Delaware, 25 June 2007
    Specifications:
    Displacement 440 t.(lt) 1,390 t.(fl)
    Length 174'
    Beam 33'
    Draft 13
    Speed unknown
    Complement
    1 Officer
    22 Enlisted
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    one Union direct diesel engine
    single propeller, 6,570shp
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    YOG-93
    YOG-93 170k YOG-93 and YO-228 laid up at Philadelphia. Naval Shipyard, circa mid-1991. Photo by Ed Zajkowski
    IX-523
    YOG-93 58k IX-523 moored pierside at NAB Little Creek, August 2005 Major R. S. Rayfield, Jr. USMC Ret.
    YOG-93 98k IX-523 moored pierside at NAB Little Creek, interior view of bridge area, August 2005 Major R. S. Rayfield, Jr. USMC Ret.
    YOG-93 192k IX-523 moored pierside at NAB Little Creek, view looking forward towards f’c’sle from bridge showing upper works, August 2005 Major R. S. Rayfield, Jr. USMC Ret.
    YOG-93 47k IX-523 moored pierside at NAB Little Creek, port quarter view from land showing fantail, gun tub, stack, rear view of bridge and upper works looking forward., August 2005 Major R. S. Rayfield, Jr. USMC Ret.
    There is no DANFS history available for YOG-93 /IX-523 at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
    Fleet Reserve Association
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