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YN-27 / AN-32 Sandalwood

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Lima - Sierra
 NWLS
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Defense Medal
Bottom Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

USS Sandalwood (AN-32) was transferred to France and renamed RFS Luciole
Aloe Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down, as Yard Net Tender (YN-27), 18 October 1940, at American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, OH.
  • Launched, 6 March 1941
  • Placed in service as Sandalwood (YN-27), 25 October 1941
  • Commissioned, USS Sandalwood (YN-32), (date unknown)
  • Redesignated (AN-32), 20 January 1944
  • Decommissioned, 13 August 1946, at Portland, OR.
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group
  • Transferred to the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia, CA. in 1962
  • Struck from the Naval Register, and transferred to France in September 1967, renamed RFS Luciole
  • Decommissioned (date unknown) by the French Navy and sold to a Malaysian shipowner
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 560 t.(fl) 850 t.(fl)
    Length 163' 2"
    Beam 30' 6"
    Draft 11' 8"
    Speed 12.5 kts.
    Complement 48
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm guns, one y-gun
    Propulsion diesel, single screw
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    Sandalwood 157k Sandalwood (AN-32) date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo from "All Hands" magazine, February 1957    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret
    Sandalwood 25k Sandalwood (AN-32) date and place unknown. Albert Seguin DCC USN Ret
    Sandalwood 25k Sandalwood (AN-32) date and place unknown. Al Seguin is Coxswain of the 36 ft. motor launch in the foreground Albert Seguin DCC USN Ret
    Sandalwood 92k Sandalwood (AN-32) date and place unknown. Albert Seguin DCC USN Ret
    Sandalwood 66k Sandalwood (AN-32) working lines, date and place unknown. Glen Paulson ex RM2 Anaqua AN-40
    Sandalwood 67k Sandalwood (AN-32) working lines, date and place unknown. Glen Paulson ex RM2 Anaqua AN-40
    Sandalwood 46k ex Sandalwood (AN-32) in French naval service as Luciole (A-777), date and place unknown. Albert Seguin DCC USN Ret
    View the Sandalwood (AN-32)
    DANFS history entry located at Navsource.
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S.Navy Memorial Foundation
    Fleet Reserve Association
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
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