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YN-13 / AN-18 Gum Tree

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down as (YN-13), at Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, WVA; Launched, 20 March 1941; Commissioned, USS Gum Tree (YN-13), 16 September 1941; Redesignated (AN-18), 20 January 1944; Decommissioned, 20 June 1946 at Orange TX.; Laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Texas Group, Orange; Struck from the Naval Register, 7 February 1947; Transferred, 27 February 1948, to the Maritime Commission at Lake Charles, LA., for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 560 t.(fl) 700 t.(fl); Length 151' 8"; Beam 30' 6"; Draft 10' 6"; Speed 15 kts; Complement 40, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, one y-gun; Propulsion, diesel.

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