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YSD-33

YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
  • Built by Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, SC
  • Laid down, 30 December 1942
  • Launched, 25 February 1943
  • Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-33, 27 October 1943
  • Allocated to the 8th Naval District
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 01 June 1974
  • Disposed of by Navy sale, 01 December 1974
  • Registered to Production Aggregate & Gravel, Orange, TX, as YSD-33 (ON 587827), 1977
  • Final disposition, fate unknown (out of documentation 1980s)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 220 tons (lt) 270 tons (fl)
    Length 104' 0"
    Beam 31' 2"
    Draft 4' 0"
    Speed 10 knots
    Derrick
    one American Hoist & Derrick model 685 rotating crane
    boom 54 ft.
    lifting capacity 10 tons
    powered by a 6-cylinder Cummins Diesel
    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
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    YSD-33
    YSD-33
    14583301    		 23k YSD-33 in the reserve fleet at Orange, TX, 04 May 1973. Skill (MSO-471) is in the background.
    Photo from government sale bid catalog.    		 George Schneider
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