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YN-23 / AN-28 Palm

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 - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:

Laid down, 18 October 1940, as a Yard Net Tender at American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, OH.

Launched, 1 February 1941

Commissioned USS Palm (YN-23), 1 November 1941

Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-28), 20 January 1944

Decommissioned, 1 January 1947, at Astoria, OR.

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

Struck from the Naval Register, (date unknown)

Transferred, 7 September 1962, to the Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Olympia, WA.

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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