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YSD-61


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal


YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
  • Built by Soule Steel Co., San Francisco, CA
  • Laid down, 24 June 1943
  • Launched, 22 April 1944
  • Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-61, 29 April 1944
  • Allocated to the 13th Naval District at NAS Whidbey Island
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Sold, 27 October 1960
  • Registered to Western Marine Construction, Inc., Seattle, WA, as O & M No. 1 (ON 284150), 1961
  • Out of documentation 2011 - abandoned on Snohomish River
    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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    197k YSD-61 underway on trials in San Francisco Bay, 28 April 1944. Photo from Ted Stone collection. George Schneider
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    233k O & M No. 1 abandoned on the Snohomish River Slough. Photo copyright Kyle Stubbs via flickriver.com. John Spivey

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