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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YN-12 Fir / AN-17 Chinquapin

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Service Medal (with Fleet clasp) - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:

Laid down (date unknown) as Fir (YN-12), at General Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Alameda, CA.

Renamed Chinquapin, 16 October 1940

Launched, 15 July 1941

Commissioned, USS Chinquapin (YN-12), 16 September 1941

Redesignated (AN-17), 20 January 1944

Decommissioned, 6 March 1946, at Astoria, OR.

Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria

Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Chinquapin received three battle stars for World War II service

Specifications:
Displacement 560 t.(fl) 700 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, one 40mm gun mount
Propulsion diesel-electric, single screw

Size	Image Description	Source
63k	Chinquapin (AN-17) tending nets at Guam, date unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
59k	Chinquapin (AN-17) tending nets at Guam, date unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
54k	Chinquapin (AN-17) crew members enjoying swim call after work, date and place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
75k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s 3"/50 gun crew, circa 1945, place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
74k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s single 40mm anti-aircraft gun mount crew. The gun, located on the stern was nicknamed "Fan Tail Annie", circa 1945, place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
66k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s single 40mm anti-aircraft gun mount six man crew, (D.H. "Barney" Barnett seated center left) circa 1945 off Okinawa.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
90k	Chinquapin (AN-17) crew members left to right Radioman, " Cris''; Quartermaster, " Benny" and Signalman "Smitty " under the barrel of the ships 3"/50 gun, South Pacific, circa 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
34k	Chinquapin (AN-17) clearing wreckage in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin, Courtesy Russel Fearman USS Chinquapin
38k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s liberty party waiting for inspection at Pearl Harbor, circa January 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
62k	Chinquapin (AN-17) crew members, Barney Barnett (left) and "Bill" (right) ready for liberty inspection at Pearl Harbor, 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
46k	Chinquapin (AN-17) with "Homeward Bound" Pennant flying is moored to an unidentified Net Tender, date and place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
78k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s crew delivering a barge load of vital sonar equipment brought to Okinawa by the ship from Peal Harbor, date unknown. (CWO H.E. Burnett seated center)	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
60k	Chinquapin (AN-17) underway during Typhoon Louise off Okinawa, 10 October 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin, Courtesy Sam Miceli USS Chinquapin
69k	Damage sustained by Chinquapin (AN-17) during Typhoon Louise, 9 October 1945, at Okinawa. The photo shows the damage to the starboard superstructure of *Chinquapin* after being rammed by two other ships during the typhoon. Other damage included a hole in port the bow and a ruptured stern tube which allowed water to pour into the ship.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
69k	A few of Chinquapin (AN-17)'s crewmembers posing for the folks back home.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
70k	One of Chinquapin (AN-17)'s signalmen (Smitty) on the bridge of Aloe (AN-6) while the two Net Tenders were moored together, date and place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
61k	Two of Chinquapin (AN-17)'s electricians Barney Barnett, left, and M.R. Offers on the forward working deck, 1945, place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
48k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s prepares a diver to go over the side to service a net/mooring problem which was a net tender specialty.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
88k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s 40mm gun mount crew at general quarters, date and place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
84k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s engine room main control panel.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
89k	One of Chinquapin (AN-17)'s two 250 volt DC electric main propulsion drive motors.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
27k	One of Chinquapin (AN-17)'s two main propulsion diesel engines, which drove electric generators, to generate electric power.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
56k	Chinquapin (AN-17) crew members, CMMoM Springer (left) and CBM Tubbs (right), date and place unknown.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
53k	Chinquapin (AN-17) towed this Gate Tender (YNg) from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa to be used in the harbor net defense system. The YNg had a fixed mooring and was non self propelled, 1945.	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin
99k	Chinquapin (AN-17)'s crew celebrate their homecoming at Amato's Supper Club, Astoria, OR., February 1946. Gorton Berry (Commanding Officer) is seated left and D. H. ( Barney ) Barnett, on the ladies' immediate left,	Dempsey H. (Barney) Barnett EM/2C USNR USS Chinquapin