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AD-27 Yellowstone

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Whiskey - Bravo - Yankee
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Expeditionary Medal (1-Cuba)
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Shenandoah Class Destroyer Tender:
  • Laid down, 16 October 1944 under a Maritime Commission contract at Todd-Pacific Shipyards Inc., Tacoma, WA.
  • Launched, 12 April 1945
  • Commissioned USS Yellowstone (AD-27), 11 January 1946
  • Decommissioned, 11 September 1974
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 12 September 1974
  • Transferred to the Maritime Administration for disposal
  • Final Disposition, sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) for scrapping in September 1975
    Specifications:
    Displacement 11,755 t.(lt) 16,880 t.(fl)
    Length 492'
    Beam 69' 6"
    Draft 28'
    Speed 18 kts.
    Complement 962
    Armament
    two single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mounts
    single eight 40mm AA gun mounts
    twenty-two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion steam turbine, single propeller
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    Cone 93k Yellowstone (AD-27) with Cone (DD-866) and Stribling (DD-867) alongside, date and location unknown. Photo by Bill Wozniak Rick Rowan
    Yellowstone 85k Yellowstone (AD-27) outboard of Grand Canyon (AD-28) moored in the Mediterranean, circa late 1940s Rick Rowan
    Photo by Bill Wozniak USS Yellowstone (AD-27)
    Yellowstone 194k Yellowstone (AD-27) in the Mediterranean with three destroyers alongside. From inboard to outboard Robert H. McCard (DD-822), unidentified DD, and Stickell (DD-888) circa late 1940s Rick Rowan
    Photo by Bill Wozniak USS Yellowstone (AD-27)
    Yellowstone 52k Yellowstone (AD-27) leaving Valletta Harbor, Malta, circa 1947 Submitted by Rick Rowan, photo by Bill Wozniak USS Yellowstone (AD-27)
    Yellowstone 83k Yellowstone (AD-27) in the Mediterranean with Cone (DD-866) and Stribling (DD-867) alongside, circa 1947. Submitted by Rick Rowan, photo by Bill Wozniak USS Yellowstone (AD-27)
    Yellowstone 81k Yellowstone (AD-27) tending two unidentified destroyers, in the Mediterranean, circa 1947. Submitted by Rick Rowan, photo by Bill Wozniak USS Yellowstone (AD-27)
    Yellowstone 77k Yellowstone (AD-27) at Augusta Bay, Sicily, 1950, ships alongside to starboard; Sea Robin (SS-407), Torsk (SS-423), Sea Leopard (SS-483), Burrfish (SS-312) to port; John R Pierce (DD-753), Barton (DD-722), Shea (DM-30), and in the background Harry F. Bauer (DM-26) Paul Roggeman USS Sea Robin web site
    Yellowstone 66k Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950. The destroyers are Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early Guppy conversion submarines is alongside to starboard.
    US Navy photo # NH 99871 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Tony Cowart
    Yellowstone 69k Yellowstone (AD-27) with destroyers and submarines alongside circa 1950. The destroyers are Rich (DD-820), Damato (DD-871), and William M. Wood (DD-715). One of the early Guppy conversion submarines is alongside to starboard.
    US Navy photo # NH 99872 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Tony Cowart
    Yellowstone 39k Yellowstone (AD-27) underway in the Mediterranean Sea, circa 1956. Photo by Larry Bohn
    Yellowstone 197k Yellowstone (AD-27) in port, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo         		Mike Smolinski
    Yellowstone 126k Yellowstone (AD-27) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo         		Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone web site
    Yellowstone 49k Yellowstone (AD-27) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo         		Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone web site
    Yellowstone 68k Yellowstone (AD-27) renders service to Allen M. Sumner (DD-692), Hunt (DD-674) and Sarfsfield (DD-837) at Naval Station Mayport, FL., date unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, August 1961    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Yellowstone 52k Yellowstone (AD-27) underway, date and place unknown.
    © Atlantic Fleet Sales, Norfolk, VA.    		 Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone web site
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