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YSD-38

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
  • Hull built by Bartlett Hayward Division, Koppers Company, Baltimore, MD
  • Completed by Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, VA
  • Laid down, 10 November 1942
  • Launched, 16 January 1943
  • Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-38, 29 December 1943
  • Allocated to the 5th Naval District
  • Sunk with all hands1 in collision with T2 tanker SS McClellan Creek off Thimble Shoals, VA, 28 November 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 17 April 1946
    1. Lost were the following:
    Chief Boatswain Don Berlin Galford (319644) USN
    Leonard Altschuler (256 92 15) Sea2c V-6 USNR
    Gerald Dean Armstrong (866 45 08) Sea1c V-6 USNR
    Ronald Manley Betker (951 98 57) Sea2c V-6 USNR
    Quenton Elwood Carr (656 74 64) Sea1c (QM) V-6 USNR
    Robert Earl Deese (269 49 02) Sea2c USN
    Donald Albert DeWitt (807 66 37) BM2c V-6 (SV) USNR
    Robert Keath Gigliotti (755 80 01) Sea1c V-6 USNR
    Brice Daniel Henderson (264 25 64) Sea1c V-6 USNR
    Nikolai Laak (908 00 55) MM3c USN
    Leonard Joseph Mercure (321 25 21) MM1c USN
    Edward Anthony Minor (905 49 28) Msmth2c V-6 USNR
    Willard Raymond Vest (955 27 69) EM3c(T) USN
    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-38
    YSD-38
    14583801    		 846k YSD-38 being salvaged by an unidentified YD off Norfolk, February 1946.
    News photo from Windsor Star, 25 February 1946.    		 Dave Wright
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