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YAG-19

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Zulu - Quebec - Delta
 NZQD
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 Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ (YN 206)
  • Completed for for Frederick B. Lovejoy, New York, NY, as the houseboat yacht Lanakila (ON 229930), July 1930
  • Sold to Chapman J. Root, Miami, FL, renamed Ellenar, 1934
  • Acquisition directed, 17 August 1942
  • Acquired by Navy, 01 September 1942
  • Converted for naval service by Merrill-Stevens Dry Dock Co., Miami FL
  • Placed in service as YAG-19, 02 November 1942
  • Operated during World War II out of Key West, supplying small outlying bases in the Caribbean
  • Placed out of service at Miami, 07 March 1946
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 20 March 1946
  • Sold for $13,600 to W.E.H. Johnson, Miami FL, 03 September 1946
  • To Honduran flag as banana boat, 1946
  • Final disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 158 gross tons, 125 net tons
    Length 94' 2"
    Beam 20' 0"
    Draft 8' 7"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion diesel, 400shp
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    14201904    		 440k Yacht Ellenar making a visit to the Penobscot Yacht Club, Brewer, ME, August 1937. The caption is a bit misleading, as Root was actually the president of Root Glass Co. in Terre Haute, IN, which made Coca-Cola bottles.
    Photo from Bangor Daily News, 26 August 1937.
    		Dave Wright
    YAG-19
    YAG-19
    14201901    		 337k Three views of YAG-19 moored pierside at Great Exuma, Bahamas, October 1945. Nancy Kellem for her father Victor E. Kocher,
    US Army Air Corps, 9th Weather Squadron,
    36th St Army Base Miami, FL
    YAG-19
    14201902    		 403k
    YAG-19
    14201903    		 277k
    There is no DANFS history available for YAG-19 at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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