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YN-93 / AN-69 Stagbush

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons


Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - American Campaign Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp)
Ailanthus Class Net Laying Ship:
  • Laid down as Yard Net Tender Stagbush (YN-93), 9 February 1943, at Canulette Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Slidell, LA.
  • Reclassified Net Laying Ship (AN-69), 20 January 1944
  • Launched, 29 January 1944
  • Commissioned USS Stagbush (AN-69), 30 August 1944, LCDR. Carl C. Dilcer, USNR, in command
  • Decommissioned, 26 March 1946, at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA.
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 21 May 1946
  • Transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal
  • Sold to Robert A. Martinolich in April 1947 and converted for commercial service
  • Final Disposition, burned, 16 October 1954, at Norfolk, VA.
  • Stagbush received one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1,275 t.
    Length 194' 6"
    Beam 37'
    Draft 13' 6"
    Speed 12 kts.
    Complement 56
    Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, four twin 20mm gun mounts
    Propulsion diesel electric, 2,500hp
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    Stagbush 81k Stagbush (AN-69) underway, date and place unknown.
    US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Kathy Munns for her father Frank Gardner USS Stagbush 1943-45
    Stagbush 80k Stagbush (AN-69) underway, date and place unknown. Note that she still has the gun tub above and to starboard of the stack, and the high after mast.
    US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Kathy Munns for her father Frank Gardner USS Stagbush 1943-45
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