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YFD-1 Dewey

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons



Precedence of awards is top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive)
Second Row - World War I Victory Medal - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal
Third Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1) - World War II Victory Medal - Philippines Defense Medal
Yard Floating Drydock:
  • Laid down in early-1905 by Maryland Steel Co., at Sparrow Point, MD.
  • Launched, 10 June 1905
  • Commissioned Dewey (Drydock No. 1), date unknown
  • Dewey was under tow from 28 December 1905 to 9 July 1906 enroute from Virginia to Olongapo, Luzon, Philippine Islands by Caesar (Collier No. 16), Brutus (Collier No. 15), Glacier (Stores Ship No. 4) and Potomac (Fleet Tug No. 50)
  • Reclassified YFD-1 in the Navy's fleet-wide assignment of alphanumeric hull numbers, 17 July 1920
  • At the outbreak of World War II Dewey was at Naval Station Subic Bay
  • To prevent the drydock from falling into enemy hands she was towed to Mariveles harbor on the tip of the Bataan Peninsula and there she was scuttled, 8 April 1942 by her docking officer LT. C.J. Weschler
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, sunk, 8 April 1942, raised by the Japanese and sunk again by US Forces
  • Dewey earned one battle star for World War II service
    Specifications:
    Displacement 18,500 t.
    Length 501 ¾'
    Beam 100'
    Draft 6 ½' (empty)
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
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    Dewey 102k Artwork by F. Muller, depicting the floating drydock Dewey during her voyage from the United States to the Philippines, under tow by Caesar (Collier No. 16), Brutus (Collier No. 15), Glacier (Stores Ship No. 4) and Potomac (Fleet Tug No. 50), in 1906.
    US photo # NH 54498 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Dewey 99k Artwork by F. Muller, depicting the floating drydock Dewey during her voyage from the United States to the Philippines, under tow by Caesar (Collier No. 16), Brutus (Collier No. 15), Glacier (Stores Ship No. 4) and Potomac (Fleet Tug No. 50), in 1906.
    US photo # NH 54499 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Dewey 68k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, circa 1907 with Maryland (Armored Cruiser No. 3) in the dock.
    US Navy photo # NH 50360 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1967.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Shark115k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with Shark (Submarine No. 8) in the dock. The gunboat Elcano (Gunboat No. 38) is also in the drydock, in the right background.
    US Naval Historical Center photo # NH 86963 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Chauncey 115k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with Chauncey (Destroyer No. 3) in the dock.
    US Navy photo # NH 73124 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center, donation of Mr. F.M. Deats, 1963    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Chauncey 81k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1910, with a stern view of Chauncey (Destroyer No. 3) in the dock.
    US Navy photo # NH 73125 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 Paul Rebold
    Moccasin 122k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1912 with Submarines
    A-6 (SS-7) ex-Porpoise ,
    A-4 (SS-5) ex-Moccasin and
    A-2 (SS-3) ex-Adder
    in the dock, circa 1912. The bow of their tender, Mohican, is at left, with an anchor suspended from her starboard cathead.
    US Navy photo # NH 90185 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Mohican 87k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1912 with Submarines
    A-6 (SS-7) ex-Porpoise ,
    A-4 (SS-5) ex-Moccasin and
    A-2 (SS-3) ex-Adder
    in the dock, circa 1912, with their tender, Mohican.
    US Navy photo # NH 90181 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Galveston 63k Floating Drydock Dewey at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, circa 1916 with Galveston (Cruiser No. 17) in the dock.
    US Navy photo # NH 69717, courtesy of Arthur B. Furnas, 1969.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Milwaukee 87k Milwaukee (CL-5) Sailors working on the ship's propellers, while she was drydocked in Dewey (YFD-1) at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 25 February 1929.
    US Navy photo # NH 64618, donation of Franklin Moran, 1967.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    S-30-35 128k The Floating Drydock Dewey (YFD-1) with Pittsburgh (CA-4) in the dock is in the background at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands in March 1929. Submarine crewmen pose with a 4"/50 deck gun on board an "S-Type" submarine. The submarines are probably;
    S-30 (SS-135) and
    S-31 (SS-136).
    Behind them are (from front to rear);
    S-35 (SS-140)    ,
    S-33 (SS-138)    ,
    S-32 (SS-137)    , and
    S-34 (SS-139).
    Photographed from Beaver (AS-5).
    US Navy photo # NH 51830    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Augusta 68k Floating Drydock Dewey (YFD-1) at Olongapo Naval Station, Philippine Islands, 29 January 1936 with USS Augusta (CA-31) in the dock.
    US Navy photo # NH # 78379 from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Jason 112k Jason (AV-2) dry docked in Dewey (YFD-1) at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 9 March 1932. Canopus (AS-9) is in the upper right, with four submarines moored alongside. The outboard submarine is S-38 (SS-143).
    US National Archives photo # 80-CF-22672-1 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    Jason 73k Jason (AV-2) drydocked in Dewey (YFD-1), at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 8 March 1932.
    US National Archives photo # 80-CF-22672-3 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 US Naval Historical Center
    There is no DANFS history for Dewey (YFD-1) available at NavSource
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