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YN-5 / AN-10 Catalpa

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Victor - Tango

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down, (date unknown), as Yard Net Tender (YN-5) at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.; Launched, 22 February 1941; Placed in service, as Catalpa (YN-5), (date unknown), LTjg F.J. George, USNR, in charge; Commissioned USS Catalpa (YN-5), 22 May 1942, at Alameda, CA.; Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-10), 20 January 1944; Decommissioned, 21 October 1946, at Astoria, OR.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Astoria; Recommissioned, 7 August 1950; Decommissioned, 7 October 1955, at New London, CT.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Final Disposition, fate unknown. Catalpa received two battle stars for World War II service.


Specifications: Displacement 560 t.(lt) 850 t.(fl); Length 163' 2"; Beam 30' 6"; Draft 11' 8"; Speed 12.5kts; Complement 44, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, one y-gun; Propulsion, diesel.
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Catalpa 10k Catalpa (AN-10) underway, date and place unknown. George Michael
Catalpa/Orca 127k An annotated view of Catalpa (AN-10)'s rig showing the arrangement of her radar and other electronic antennas. Photographed at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, Hunters Point, CA, 21 December 1951. Orca (AVP-49) is shown in the background a week after being reactivated.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-445892, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
US Naval Historical Center
Catalpa/Orca 141k An annotated view of Catalpa (AN-10)'s foremast showing the arrangement of her radar and other electronic antennas. Photographed at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, California, on 21 December 1951. Note the sailor climbing the mast. Orca (AVP-49) is shown in the background a week after being reactivated.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-445891, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.
US Naval Historical Center

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