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YR-25

YR-24 Class Floating Workshop:
  • Laid down, 7 April 1941, by J.K. Welding Co., Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Launched, 1 August 1941
  • Delivered and placed in service, as non-self propelled Floating Workshop YR-25, 1 July 1942, location unknown, allocated to the 3rd Naval District
  • Placed out of service and laid up in the Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 21 August 1997
  • Transferred, 20 March 2003, to US Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N.C.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 530 t.(lt) 760 t.(fl)
    Length 150'
    Beam 36'
    Draft 6'
    Accommodations
    Officers one
    Enlisted 46
    Machinery
    two 60KW Diesel generator sets
    one 10KW Diesel generator set
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    YR-25 127k YR-25 laid up at the Philadelphia Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility on the Schuylkill River quay wall, October 1971. Photos by Jim Swank
    YR-23 135k
    There is no DANFS history available for YR-25 at Navsource
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