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YN-84 / AN-63 / AG-129 Whitewood

Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down, as Yard Net Tender Whitewood (YN-84), 24 October 1942, at Snow Shipyards Inc., Rockland ME; Redesignated Net Laying Ship (AN-63), 20 January 1944; Launched, 21 April 1944; Commissioned USS Whitewood (AN-63), 17 July 1944; Reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-129), 14 January 1947; Decommissioned, 1 April 1949; Struck from the Naval Register, 7 June 1949; Final Disposition, sold to Walter H. Wimms, Los Angeles, CA., 8 March 1950 and scrapped.

Specifications: Displacement 1,100 t.; Length 194' 6"; Beam 37'; Draft 13' 6"; Speed 12kts; Complement 56, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, two single 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, diesel-electric, 2,500hp, single propeller.

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	43k	Whitewood (AN-63) underway, date and place unknown.		Ken Laesser
	79k	Whitewood (AN-63) underway, after modifications for her participation in Operation "Nanook, 7 March 1946. Note in this photo her horns have been removed and she still carries hull number 63 on her port bow so this is before resignation to Miscellaneous Auxiliary (AG-129) US Navy photo Boston Naval Shipyard # 2256-46		Courtesy Glen Paulson ex RM2 Anaqua AN-40

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