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YSD-27

YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:

Built by Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, HI

Laid down 08 August 1941

Launched, 07 November 1941

Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-27, 18 December 1941

Allocated to the Fourteenth Naval District during World War II

YSD-27 supported salvage of battleships at Pearl Harbor, December 1941 - November 1942

Served as station barge at Johnston Island, December 1942 - unknown date

Served at Eniwetok during 1944

Postwar allocated to Tenth Naval District at Roosevelt Roads, PR

Struck from the Naval Register, 01 August 1971

Sold, 24 August 1972

Registered to White Star Management, Miami, FL, as freighter El Tuto (ON 580093), 1976

Final disposition, fate unknown (last documented 2002)

Specifications:
Displacement 220 tons (lt) 270 tons(fl)
Length 104'
Beam 31' 2"
Draft 4'
Speed 10 knots

Derrick

one American Hoist & Derrick model 685 rotating crane

boom 54 ft.

lifting capacity 10 tons

Accommodations

Officers 1

Enlisted 15

Ship's Service Generators

one 30Kw Diesel Generator set

one 20Kw Diesel Generator set

Propulsion

two Superior model MRDB-8 200 HP Diesel engines

two propellers, 640shp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
14582701	69k	YSD-27 moored at Roosevelt Roads awaiting sale, 1972. Photo from sales brochure.		George Schneider

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