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AD-41 Yellowstone

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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
  • 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
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    Yellowstone 44k Yellowstone (AD-41) ships plaque Mike Winar and Joe Muckalutz
    Yellowstone 72k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Jeffrey Croy
    USS Yellowstone Home page
    Yellowstone 571k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Wendell Royce McLaughlin Jr. and
    John Rutherford USS Yellowstone
    Yellowstone 93k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    		 Richard Leonhardt
    Yellowstone 104k Yellowstone (AD-41) at anchor, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Jeffrey Croy
    USS Yellowstone Home page
    Yellowstone 110k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo    		 Jeffrey Croy
    USS Yellowstone Home page
    Yellowstone 43k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    ©Marine Photos, San Diego, CA.         		Mike Smolinski
    Yellowstone 54k Yellowstone (AD-41) underway, date and location unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, July 1984.         		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    FFG-8 USS McInerney 61 Yellowstone (AD-41) with Bainbridge (CGN-25) and 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
    FFG-8 USS McInerney 61 Yellowstone (AD-41) services from left to right; McInerney (FFG-8), Bainbridge (CG-25), McCandless (FF-1084), and Voge (FF-1047), 1 November 1988, Augusta Bay, Sicily.
    US Navy photo DNST8908630 by JO1 Millie Tamberg    		 Defense Visual Information Center
    Yellowstone 89k Yellowstone (AD-41) Welcome Aboard pamphlet. Richard Miller BMCS USNR Ret.
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