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YN-21 / AN-26 Mimosa

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)
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down, 15 October 1940, as Yard Net Tender Mimosa (YN-21), at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH.
  • Launched, 15 March 1941
  • Placed in service, 28 October 1941
  • Commissioned, USS Mimosa (YN-21) 10 December 1942, LT. W. L. Freeburn in command
  • Redesignated (AN-26), 20 January 1944
  • Decommissioned, 27 December 1946, at Vancouver, WA.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR.
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Custody transferred to the Maritime Commission, 13 July 1961, for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.
  • Final Disposition, scrapped (date unknown)
  • Mimosa earned two battle stars for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.(lt) 850 t.(fl)
    Length 151' 8"
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 10' 6"
    Speed 12.5 kts.
    Complement 48
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two .30 cal. machine guns
    Propulsion direct drive diesel, single propeller
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