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YAG-16

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - India - Lima
 NZIL
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Self-propelled Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft:
  • Built by Johann Lange, Bremerhaven, Germany (YN 318)
  • Completed as pilot schooner Bremerhaven for Lotsengesellschaft, Bremerhaven, 1886
  • Retired from pilot service, 1921
  • Acquired as holiday ship by German youth group in Lübeck, renamed Glückauf ("Good luck"), 1927
  • Sold to H. Schubert, February 1933
  • Sold abroad, December 1934
  • Placed on British registry as yacht Icaros, owned by Noël C. Rees, Famagusta, Cyprus (B114944), 05 May 1936
  • Acquired by Ford Motor Company executive Charles E. Sorenson, Miami, FL (ON 240223), 1940
  • Sailed from Athens to Miami, 27 May - 05 December 1940
  • Purchased by the US Navy for $25,000, 30 July 1942
  • Converted for Naval service at a cost of $6,262 by Warriner & Des Roches, Miami FL
  • Placed in service as YAG-16, 23 September 1942
  • Operated out of Port Everglades, FL carrying cargo and personnel to bases in Cuba and the Bahamas
  • Decommissioned at Port Everglades and placed in storage at Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock Co., Miami FL, 08 July 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 28 June 1944
  • Sold for $13,100 to J.W. Metzler, Houston TX, 30 December 1944
  • To Honduran flag, wrecked in hurricane and beached near Baker's Haulover Inlet, FL, September 1945
    Specifications:
    Displacement 118 gross tons
    Length 87' (92' overall)
    Beam 21' 6"
    Draft 9' (14' revised)
    Speed 7 knots
    Complement 2 officers, 9 enlisted
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion Chrysler 4-cylinder gas engine, 140hp
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    YAG-16
    14201601    		 426k Icaros seen at Miami 05 December 1940, after her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean in 1940. The voyage included a long stop at Tunisia, where they experienced 26 bombing attacks, and the sighting of a surfaced U-boat off Martinique.
    Photo from Miami Herald, 06 December 1940.    		 Dave Wright
    There is no DANFS history available for YAG-16 at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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