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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YP-678

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Hotel - India - Mike NHIM

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
National Defense Service Medal

YP-676 Class Training Craft

Built by Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI

Contract awarded, 25 May 1983

Laid down, 12 December 1983

Launched, 03 November 1984

Delivered and placed in service at US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 13 May 1985

Struck from the Naval Register, 20 November 1998

Sold, 04 May 1999

Acquired for use as an alternative to juvenile detention ("USS Justice") at Norfolk, VA, date unknown

For sale for $30,000 on Craigslist, August 2014

Current Status, unknown (last noted derelict at Chesapeake, VA)

Specifications:
Displacement 176 tons (max.)
Length 108'
Beam 24'
Draft 8'
Speed 12 kts.
Armament none

Complement

2 Officers

4 Enlisted

Range 1800 nm

Propulsion

two 12V-71N Detroit diesel engines

two propellers, 437 shp @ 2,100 RPM

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
143167803	45k	YP-678 downbound on the St. Lawrence River off Vercheres, Quebec, 06 July 1987. She and her three sisters were completing a midshipman cruise on the Great Lakes. Photo courtesy Marc Piche, shipspotting.com.	Robert Hurst
143167802	36k	*"Judgement"* ex-YP-678 moored pierside at Norfolk, VA, 25 May 2002. Photo courtesy Robert J. Smith	Robert Hurst
143167804	180k	Ex-YP-678 tied-up to her moorings, date unknown. Photo courtesy Gansell (real name unknown) via photobucket.com	Robert Hurst
143167801	26k	Ex-YP-678 moored pierside at Chesapeake, VA, awaiting a buyer, September 2007	Tom Langford
143167805	65k	Ex-YP-678 tied up to her moorings, date unknown, probably while awaiting sale.	Monti Stratton