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YSD-39

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Lima - Golf - Victor
 NLGV
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, 18 January 1943
  • Launched, 08 March 1943
  • Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-39, 22 December 1943
  • Initially allocated to NAS Patuxent River, MD
  • YSD-39 spent most of her career attached to the Navy Diving and Salvage School
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 08 October 1991
  • Sold for scrapping at Panama City, FL, 13 May 1993
    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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    For Full Size Image    		 Size Image Description Source
    YSD-39
    14581103    		 109k YSD-39 underway, date and location unknown. Photo from Ted Stone collection. George Schneider
    LCI(L)-576
    1015057601    		 129k USS LCI(L)-576 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, NJ, on commissioning day, 21 March 1944. YSD-39 is docked on the other side of the pier.
    FLICKR U.S Navy photo submitted by Dave Mills    		 John Spivey
    YSD-39
    14583901    		 88k YSD-39 moored alongside salvage project in support of a salvage class in floating the project, circa 1976-1978. The Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center was located in Washington, DC prior to being moved to Panama City, FL. Rick Sherley
    YSD-39
    14583902    		 74k
    YDT-15
    14401501    		 1018k Suitland (YDT-15) docked at the south east pier, Washington Navy Yard, by the Navy Diving and Salvage School, February 1977. YDT-16 is at left, and YSD-39 at right. National Archives photo K-116668 Dave Wright
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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    Last Updated 19 August 2020