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YR-23
ex
 YC-701

YR-23 Class Floating Workshop:
  • Built by Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA
  • Planned as Open Lighter No. 701
  • Redesignated Floating Workshop YR-23 before start of construction, 10 October 1940
  • Laid down, 13 March 1941
  • Launched, 16 July 1941
  • Completed and placed in service, 29 November 1941
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, March 1978
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 110'
    Beam 34'
    Draft unknown
    Machinery
    one 60KW Diesel generator set
    one 10Kw Diesel generator set
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    YR-23 52 YR-23 moored at Naval Station Mayport, FL, November 1971 with USS Saratoga (CVA-60) in the background. Photo by Jim Swank
    There is no DANFS history available for YC-701 / YR-23 at Navsource
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