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YN-114 / AN-88 Skakamaxon

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Cohoes Class Net Laying Ship: Laid down, 30 June 1944, as Yard Net Tender Skakamaxon (YN-114); at Letham D. Smith Shipbuilding Co., Sturgeon Bay, WI.; Launched, 9 September 1944; Redesigned Net Laying Ship (AN-88), 17 January 1945;Commissioned USS Skakamaxon (AN-88), 5 May 1945; Decommissioned, 21 April 1947, at San Diego, CA.; Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1963; Custody transferred to MARAD for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet; Reacquired by the Navy in 1968 and transferred to the Department of the Interior; Final Disposition, fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 775 t.; Length 168' 6"; Beam 33' 10"; Draft 10' 10"; Speed 12.3 kts; Complement 46, Armament one single 3"/50 gun mount, four single 20mm gun mounts; Propulsion, diesel direct drive, 2,500hp, single propeller.

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