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YN-11 / AN-16 Eucalyptus

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down (date unknown) as a Yard Net Tender at General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA.
  • Launched, 3 July 1941
  • Placed in service as Eucalyptus (YN-11), 9 October 1941, Lt. S. B. McDonald, USNR, officer-in-charge
  • Commissioned USS Eucalyptus (YN-11), 9 May 1942, Lieutenant Commander A. J. Einmo, USNR, in command
  • Redesignated Net Laying Ship (AN-16), 20 January 1944
  • Decommissioned in November 1946, at Astoria, OR.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group
  • Struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the Maritime Administration in September 1962
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.(fl) 850 t.(fl)
    Length 163' 2"
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 11' 8"
    Speed 12.5 kts.
    Complement 40
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two 20mm guns
    Propulsion diesel, single propeller
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    Eucalyptus (YN-11)
    Eucalyptus 29k Eucalyptus (YN-11) underway in 1941 off the Oregon/Washington coast.
    A US Navy photo now in the collections of NARA, Pacific Alaska Region (Seattle) (record group 181).    		 Tracy White
    USS Eucalyptus (AN-16)
    Eucalyptus 53k Eucalyptus (AN-16) ready to stream (stretch) net. Note stern anchor wire which dropped anchor about 500 yards from end of net line. Eucalyptus is picking up end buoy previously laid. Previously laid net will be shackled to new net. Eucalyptus will heave in on stern anchor and new net section will be streamed, Kuluk Bay, AK., 1944. Glen Paulson ex RM2 Anaqua AN-40
    Eucalyptus 63k Eucalyptus (AN-16) discharging and steaming net at Kuluk Bay, AK., 1944. Glen Paulson ex RM2 Anaqua AN-40
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    DANFS history entry located at the US Naval Historical Center web site
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
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