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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YOG-76

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Charlie - Mike
NFCM

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - Combat Action Ribbon (13NOV69) - American Campaign Medal
Second Row - American Campaign Medal - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2) - World War II Victory Medal
Third Row - National Defense Service Medal - Vietnam Service Medal (1) - Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal

YOG-5 Class Gasoline Barge (Self-propelled):

Laid down, 24 February 1944, at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, WA.

Launched (date unknown)

Commissioned USS YOG-76, (date unknown)

Decommissioned (date unknown) and placed in service on that date

YOG-76 was activated for service in Vietnam (date unknown)

On 13 November 1969 while anchored in Cua Viet Cove, South Vietnam, YOG-76 sustained damage from two underwater explosions and sank in 20 feet of water. The craft was re-floated and towed to Da Nang, South Vietnam, but because of severe damage sustained was struck from the Naval Register

Placed out of service (date unknown) at Da Nang, South Vietnam

Struck from the Naval Register, 1 May 1970

Final Disposition, sold as foreign excess property, 15 June 1973

Specifications:
Displacement 440 t.(lt) 1,235 t.(fl)
Length 174'
Beam 32'
Draft unknown
Speed kts.
Complement 1 Officer, 22 Enlisted
Armament unknown
Propulsion diesel engines, single propeller

Size	Image Description	Source
429k	USS YOG-76 at anchor alongside an unidentified LSM while off Saipan in 1944.	Forrest T. Frost collection
99k	USS YOG-76 at anchor off Saipan in 1944.	Forrest T. Frost collection
114k	Port aft quarter view of USS YOG-76 at anchor in 1944.	Forrest T. Frost collection
390k	USS YOG-76 at anchor off Chichi-Jima in 1945.	Forrest T. Frost collection
111k	USS YOG-76 crew members, left to right, Danny Morris, Ed Weaver, Doc Offenback, Shorty Franton and Cookie Harold Blow on the tank deck while the ship was in dry dock at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, date unknown.	Forrest T. Frost collection
239k	USS YOG-76 crew members Vincent Troutman and Chistie Barron, fooling around on the tank, date and location unknown.	Forrest T. Frost collection
247k	Forrest T. Frost on the tank deck of USS YOG-76, date and location unknown.	Forrest T. Frost collection
103k	USS YOG-76 off Iwo Jima in 1945, with Mount Suribachi in the background.	Forrest T. Frost collection
69k	*YOG-76, YO-77* along with two unidentified YOGs, moored at Navy Yard Bremerton WA., 10 January 1945.	Tracy White
97k	*YOG-76* and *YOG-77* along with two unidentified YOGs across from *APL-2* moored at pier 7-C, Puget Sound Navy Yard, 10 January 1945. Puget Sound Navy Yard photo # 99-45.	Tracy White
35k	*YOG-76* at Cua Viet, South Vietnam after being sunk on 13 November 1969, by mines planted by North Vietnamese swimmers	Thomas Lanagan YFU-79
54k	*YOG-76* after being raised and towed to DaNang, South Vietnam, date unknown.	Thomas Lanagan YFU-79