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YF-176
ex
 Aspinet (1918 - 1920)
 Apache (1898 - 1918)
 USS Apache (1898)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Bravo - Sierra
 NBS
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Spanish Campaign Medal - World War I Victory Medal
Wrecking Tug / Self-propelled Covered Lighter:
  • Built by A.C. Brown & Sons, Tottenville, NY
  • Laid down, date unknown
  • Launched, 11 April 1889
  • Completed for Merritt & Chapman Wrecking Co., New York, NY, as the wrecking tug J. D. Jones (ON 76830), 1889
  • Purchased by the Navy, 24 May 1898
  • Commissioned USS Apache, 11 June 1898, Lieutenant Edwin Geer commanding
  • Assigned to the Norfolk Navy Yard during the Spanish-American War interrupted with a short tour at Key West in August 1898
  • Decommissioned, 24 September 1898
  • Refitted for service at Naval Magazine, Iona Island, 1900
  • Renamed Aspinet, 11 April 1918
  • Reassigned to Charleston, SC, 1920
  • Name dropped when designated self-propelled lighter YF-176, 17 July 1920
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Sold, 29 September 1925
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 650 tons
    Length 141' 6"
    Beam 29'
    Draft 10'
    Speed 10 knots
    Armament
    1898
    two single 4"/40 gun mounts
    two 3-pdrs
    1918
    two one-pdrs
    one machine gun
    Complement 48
    Propulsion
    one vertical triple expansion steam engine
    single propeller, 550shp
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    YF-176 58k Apache underway in December 1900. Formerly a wrecking steamer, this vessel had booms and cargo holds for handling salvage equipment.
    US National Archives, RG-19-N box 57, Photo # 19-N-14209 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Mike Green
    YF-176 408k Submarine Plunger (Submarine No. 2) alongside Apache during trials in Oyster Bay, NY, 30 August 1905.
    USN photo via laststandonzombieisland.com    		 Tommy Trampp
    USS Apache / Aspinet / YF-176
    DANFS history entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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    Last Updated 25 September 2020