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YP-337

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Sierra - Xray NWSX

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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

District Patrol Craft

Built by Johnson Brothers, Seattle, WA

Completed for San Juan Fishing and Packing Co., Seward, AK, as fishing vessel San Juan (ON 229373), 1930

Acquired by the Navy, 19 February 1942

Delivered to NSB, Seattle, for fitting out, 23 April 1942

Placed in service as YP-337, May 1942

Departed Seattle for Alaska, 20 May 1942

Operated in Alaskan waters, 1942 - 1945

Departed Dutch Harbor, AK, for Seattle to be placed out of service, 27 July 1945

Placed out of service, 28 September 1945

Struck from the Naval Register, 24 October 1945

Transferred to WSA (War Shipping Administration) for disposal, 30 October 1945

Registered to C.E. Anderson, Juneau, AK, renamed Virginia I, 1946

Registered to Seldovia Bay Packing Co., Seattle, WA, 1947

Registered to Farwest Fishermen, Inc., Seattle, WA, 1954

Registered to Whitney & Co., Anacortes, WA, 1958

Registered to Erskine M. Nicol, Poulsbo, WA, 1959

Renamed Spray, 1962

Registered to Albert Reynolds, Caspar, CA, reverted to San Juan, 1963

Registered to Bruce Abernathy, Fort Bragg, CA, 1968

Registered to Gressett family, Fort Bragg, CA, as passenger vessel, circa 2005

Holed by log and foundered at moorings on Noyo River, CA, early 2017

Final disposition, removed and dismantled several months later

Specifications:
Displacement 72 gross tons, 49 net tons
Length 71' 9"
Beam 17' 9"
Draft 8' 6"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament unknown

Propulsion

one Diesel engine

one propeller, 135shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
143133701	106k	*San Juan* pierside, Los Angeles harbor, 11 December 1979. Photo copyright George Schneider.	George Schneider
143133702	102k	Broadside view of *San Juan* pierside, Los Angeles harbor, 11 December 1979. Photo copyright George Schneider.	George Schneider
143133703	474k	*San Juan* moored in a dillapidated state on the Noyo River near Fort Bragg, CA, 22 September 2016. Photo copyright Kyle Stubbs.	Kyle Stubbs

There is no DANFS history record available for YP-337 at NavSource

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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