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YN-2 / AN-7 Ash

Flag Hoist/Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Papa - Mike

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Service Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal -World War II Victory Medal

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down as Yard Net Tender (YN-2), at Lake Washington Shipyards Houghton, WA.; Launched, 15 February 1941; Placed in service as Ash (YN-2), 1 July 1941; Redesignated as a Net Layer and commissioned USS Ash (AN-7), 20 December 1942; Decommissioned, 13 December 1946, at Vancouver, WA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 September 1962; Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.; Final Disposition, sold for scrapping, 14 May 1971, to I. D. Logan.

Specifications: Displacement 560 t.(lt) 700 t.(fl); Length 151' 8"; Beam 30' 6"; Draft 10' 6"; Speed 14 kts; Complement 40; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, four .50 cal. machine guns, one y-gun; Propulsion, diesel, single propeller.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	59k	Ash (AN-7) underway, circa 1941 in Measure 1 camouflage--dark green with light gray mast tops. Note the specially designed lifting "horns" forward, as well as the heavy boom at the foremast. US National Archives photo # 80-G-45027, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives		Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

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DANFS history entry located at Navsource.

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association

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