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YN-91 / AN-67 Shellbark

Shellbark served in both the US and Nationalist Chinese Navies

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 Medal (with Asia Clasp)

Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down as Shellbark (YN-91), 15 January 1943, at Canuelette Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Slidell, LA.; Launched, 31 October 1943; Redesignated Net Laying Ship (AN-67), 20 January 1944; Commissioned USS Shellbark (AN-67), 12 April 1944; Decommissioned, 19 April 1946 at Shanghai, China; Sold to China 20 April 1946; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1946.

Specifications: Displacement 1,100 t.(lt) 1,275 t.(fl); Length 194' 6"; Beam 37'; Draft 13' 6"; Speed 12.1kts; Complement 56, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, three 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, direct drive diesel 2,500hp, single propeller.

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