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YN-6 / AN-11 Chestnut

Radio Call Sign: November - Alpha - Zulu - Mike

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down as Yard Net Tender (YN-6), at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR.; Launched, 16 March 1941; Placed in service as Chestnut (YN-6), 26 July 1941; Redesignated as a Net Layer and commissioned USS Chestnut (AN-11), 24 June 1942; Decommissioned, 7 September 1946 at Bremerton, WA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group; Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown); Transferred to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 660 t.(lt) 850 t.(fl); Length 163' 2"; Beam 30' 6"; Draft 11' 8"; Speed 12 kts; Complement 48; Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, four .50 cal. machine guns, one y-gun; Propulsion, diesel, single propeller.

Size	Image Description	Source
57k	Chestnut (AN-11) underway, 1945, place unknown	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46
120k	Chestnut (AN-11) in port, place unknown, circa 1945	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46
120k	Chestnut (AN-11) in port, place unknown, tied up alongside an unidentified Destroyer, 1945	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46
120k	Chestnut (AN-11) secured to a buoy, place unknown, 1945. She has anchors attached to her port and starboard boons.	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46
120k	Chestnut (AN-11) with her hold emptied on her forward deck, someplace in California, 1946	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46
120k	Chestnut (AN-11) testing boom, 1945, place unknown	Paul T. Cedergren GM3 USS Chestnut 1945-46

View the Chestnut (YN-6 / AN-11)
DANFS history entry located at Navsource.

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

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