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YR-40

YR-24 Class Floating Workshop:
  • Built by Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
  • Laid down, date unknown
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered and placed in service, as non-self propelled Floating Workshop YR-40, February 1943
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Sold to Guatemala, December 1975
  • Final disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 530 tons(lt) 760 tons(fl)
    Length 150'
    Beam 36'
    Draft 6'
    Accommodations
    Officers 1
    Enlisted 46
    Machinery unknown
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    YR-40 109k YR-40 moored at Naval Minecraft Base, Charleston, SC, 23 October 1953.
    		 Dave Wright
    There is no DANFS history available for YR-40 at Navsource
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