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YP-251

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Tango - November NYTN

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

District Patrol Craft

Built by Marine Ways, Seattle, WA

Completed for Andrew Peterson, Seattle, WA, as halibut fishing vessel Foremost (ON 223964), 1924

Registered to Marcus Ness, Ketchikan, AK, circa 1939

Acquired by the US Navy, 11 December 1941

Placed in service as YP-251, 31 December 1941

Crewed by U.S. Coast Guard personnel, 31 December 1941 - 24 October 1945

Assigned to 17th Naval District, Northwestern Sea Frontier and Alaskan Sea Frontier

Operated out of Ketchikan, Alaska, on patrol duties, 1941 - 1945

With USCGC McLane (WSC-146) attacked and claimed sinking a Japanese submarine off Cape Ommaney, 09 July 1942¹

Placed out of service, date unknown

Struck from the Naval Register, 24 October 1945

Transferred to WSA (War Shipping Administration), 18 March 1946

Registered as Foremost to Robert Prothero, Seattle, WA, 1946

Registered to Manson F. Backus, executor of estate of LeRoy M. Backus, Seattle, WA, 1950

Renamed Le Roy, 1954

Sold to Alvin Osterback, Sand Point, AK, 1957

^{1.Though supposedly "confirmed" postwar as the Japanese submarine RO-32, this unit had been stricken 01 Apr 1942 and on this date was a stationary training hulk at the submarine school at Otake. It is unknown what submarine, if any, was attacked on this date. Both COs, LT Neils P. Thomsen, USCG, of YP-251, and LT Ralph Burns, USCG, of McLane received the Legion of Merit for this action.}

Specifications:
Displacement 82 gross tons, 66 net tons
Length 79' 8"
Beam 18' 5"
Draft 8' 2"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament unknown

Propulsion

one Diesel engine

single propeller, 165shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	166k	*Foremost* as completed, 1924. Photo from Pacific Fisherman, August 1924.		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

There is no DANFS history record available for YP-251 at NavSource

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
Account of attack on Japanese submarine

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