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YFNB-1
ex
 BCL 3098

Large Covered Lighter:
  • Built by Barrett & Hilp, South San Francisco, CA (YN 2)
  • Ordered, 30 June 1942
  • Completed for Maritime Commission as B7-D1 concrete barge Chromite (ON 175820, MC hull 1320), September 1943
  • Transferred to Army as large cargo barge BCL 3098 soon after completion 1
  • Departed Honolulu for Eniwetok, 24 August 1944
  • Served at Eniwetok, September - October 1944
  • Towed by Vestal (AR-4) from Eniwetok to Ulithi, 04-15 October 1944
  • Served at Ulithi, October 1944 - May 1945
  • Towed from Ulithi to Saipan by ATA-185, 26 May - 01 June 1945
  • Transferred to Navy, designated Large Covered Lighter YFNB-1, late 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Transferred to Department of Interior, for use in Trust Territories, 1952
  • Final Disposition, used as breakwater at Ennylabagen Islet, Kwajalein, since early 1960s
    1. Chromite was originally acquired by the Army as BCL 2570, but then returned to the WSA and later reacquired as BCL 3098. Some sources still refer to her by the earlier number, but all war diaries and routing orders refer to her as 3098.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 700 tons(lt) 2000 tons(fl)
    Length 366' 4" overall, 350' waterline
    Beam 54'
    Draft 26'
    Armament unknown
    Complement unknown
    Machinery none
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    YFNB-1 99k Hulk of ex-YFNB-1 in use as a breakwater at Ennylabagen (aka "Carlos"), 1969. Photo from "Concrete Barge Settles at Carlos," article by Eugene C. Sims in The Kwajalein Hourglass, 09 January 2004. Dave Wright
    YFNB-1 131k Google Earth image of ex-YFNB-1 in use as a breakwater at Ennylabagen, January 2017. George Schneider
    There is no DANFS history for YFNB-1 available at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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