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USS Yellowstone (AD-41)

Radio Call Sign:
November - Juliet - Alpha - Golf NJAG

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Navy Unit Commendation -Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation
Second Row - Navy Battle "E" Ribbon - National Defense Service Medal - Southwest Asia Service Medal (2)
Third Row - Sea Service Deployment Ribbon - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi Arabia) - Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kuwait)

Yellowstone Class Destroyer Tender:

Laid down, 27 June 1977 at National Steel and Shipbuilding, San Diego, CA.

Launched, 27 January 1979

Commissioned USS Yellowstone (AD-41), 28 June 1980, at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, CAPT. John R. Campbell in command

Decommissioned, 31 January 1996, at Naval Station, Norfolk, VA.

Struck from the Naval Register, 7 April 1999

Laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, VA.

Final Disposition, title transfer to MARAD, 28 July 2001 for disposal, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 13,315 t.(lt) 20,263 t.(fl)
Length 642'
Beam 85'
Draft 27'
Speed 20kts.
Complement 1,500
Armament one single 5"/38 dual purpose gun mount
Propulsion two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft, 20,000 shaft horsepower

Size	Image Description	Source
44k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** ships plaque	Mike Winar and Joe Muckalutz
72k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone Home page
571k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. and John Rutherford USS Yellowstone
93k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown.	Richard Leonhardt
104k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** at anchor, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone Home page
110k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo	Jeffrey Croy USS Yellowstone Home page
43k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown. ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.	Mike Smolinski
54k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** underway, date and location unknown. US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1984.	Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
61	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41) with USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) and USS McInerney (FF-8)** alongside, 25 October 1988, Augusta Bay, Sicily. US Navy photo DNST8902095 by JO1 Millie Tamberg, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the Defense Visual Information Center collections.	Fred Weiss
61	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41) services from left to right; USS McInerney (FFG-8), USS Bainbridge (CG-25), USS McCandless (FF-1084), and USS Voge (FF-1047)**, 1 November 1988, Augusta Bay, Sicily. US Navy photo DNST8908630 by JO1 Millie Tamberg	Defense Visual Information Center
1265k	*USS Yellowstone* (AD-41)** arriving at Genoa, Italy, 9 October 1992.	Photo by Carlo Martinelli

For more photos and information about USS Yellowstone, see;
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships
Commissioning Booklet (cover only)
Welcome Aboard Pamphlet (1980)
Welcome Aboard Pamphlet (2)
USS Yellowstone
Commanding Officers

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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