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YRBM-5

YRBM-1 Class Repair, Berthing and Messing Barge:
  • Laid down, 15 July 1959, at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, WI.
  • Launched, 4 May 1960
  • Delivered and placed in service, 26 May 1960
  • Placed out of service and struck from the Naval Register, 26 June 2000
  • Final Disposition, sold, 13 August 2001, by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) by exchange/sale for reuse/conversion, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 236 t.(lt) 310 t.(fl)
    Length 112'
    Beam 36'
    Draft 4'
    Accommodations
    Officers 10
    Enlisted 90
    Armament
    Machinery unknown
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    YRBM-5 102k YRBM-5 under construction at Marinette Marine Corp., Marinette, WI., circa second half of 1959.
    Photo from Bowling Green University Historical Collection of the Great Lakes    		 Joe Radigan
    There is no DANFS history available for YRBM-5 at Navsource
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