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YN-22 / AN-27 Mulberry


Mulberry (AN-27) was transferred to Ecuador and renamed Orion (H-101)
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 - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
Second Row - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp) - National Defense Service Medal
Third Row - Korean Service Medal (1) - United Nations Service Medal - Republic of Korea War Service Medal (retroactive)
Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down, 18 October 1940, as a Yard Net Tender at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH.
  • Launched, 26 March 1941
  • Placed in service as Mulberry (YN-22), 1 November 1941
  • Commissioned, USS Mulberry (YN-22), 19 December 1942
  • Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-27), 20 January 1944
  • Decommissioned, 11 April 1960
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group
  • Transferred on loan, under terms of the Military Assistance Program, to Ecuador in November 1965, renamed Orion (H-101)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, scrapped in 1980
  • Mulberry earned one battle star for Korean Service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.(lt) 850 t.(fl)
    Length 163' 2"
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 11' 8"
    Speed 12.5 kts.
    Complement 4 officers, 44 enlisted
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, one y-gun
    Propulsion direct drive diesel, single propeller
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    Mulberry 69k Port quarter view of Mulberry (YN-22) off Old Bay Line piers, Norfolk, VA.
    US Navy photo - Norfolk Navy Yard Photo SeriaL No. 5783(43), 12 August 1943    		 Hyperwar US Navy in WWII
    Mulberry 127k Mulberry (AN-27) underway, date and place unknown. Courtesy Glen Paulson ex RM2 USS Anaqua (AN-40)
    Mulberry 37k Mulberry (AN-27) in dry dock at US Naval Shipyard Hunters Point, San Francisco, CA. before deployment to the Far East, circa 1950.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine September 1952    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    Mulberry 98k The Homeward-Bound pennant files for the masthead of Mulberry (AN-27) as she leaves Yokosuka, Japan for the US after 5 years in the Far East, circa December 1955.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine February 1956    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
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