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YN-81 / AN-60 Catclaw

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Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal - Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down as the Yard Net Tender Catclaw (YN-81), at Snow Shipyards Inc., Rockland, ME.
  • Launched, 22 May 1943
  • Commissioned USS Catclaw (YN-81), 14 January 1944, LT. T. A. Wall, USNR in command
  • During World War II Catclawserved in both the European and Asiatic-Pacific Theaters
  • Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-60), 20 January 1944
  • Decommissioned, 19 April 1946 at Shanghai, China
  • Struck from the Naval Register and transferred to the State Department for sale to the Republic of China
  • Final disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,100 t.
    Length 194' 6"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 56
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    four twin 20mm AA gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel electric, 2,500hp.
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    Catclaw 61k Catclaw (AN-60) underway, date and place unknown. Catclaw is painted in a variation of camouflage scheme measure 31 design 20L. Hyperwar US Navy in WWII Web Site
    Baretta 106k A Japanese Type A or Type C Midget Submarine under salvage by Catclaw (AN-60) and Baretta (AN-41) at Untan Ro (Okinawa), in July-September 1945. The submarine had been sunk there by U.S. planes during the Okinawa campaign. Note its counter-rotating propellers. Photograph was released for publication 21 January 1946.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-350051, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Catclaw 92k Japanese Type A or Type C midget submarine under salvage by Catclaw (AN 60) and Baretta (AN 41) at Untan Ro, Okinawa, July-September 1945.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-350052, a US Navy photo, now in the collection of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Catclaw 96k Japanese Type A or Type C midget submarine under salvage by Catclaw (AN 60) and Baretta (AN 41) at Untan Ro, Okinawa, July-September 1945. LST-809 can be seen in background.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-350054, a US Navy photo, now in the collection of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    View the Catclaw (AN-60)
    DANFS History entry located at the US Naval Historical Center
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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