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USS Baranof (YAG-11)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Kilo - Bravo
 NYKB
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
Self-propelled Steel-hulled Miscellaneous Auxiliary Service Craft:
  • Built in 1920 as MV Casco, a steel hulled, twin screw cargo ship, by Long Beach Shipbuilding Co., Long Beach, CA.
  • Sold in February 1921 to Wayne & Hoyt, San Francisco, CA.
  • Sold in 1923 to Inter0Island Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., Honolulu, T.H., renamed MV Kailua
  • Sold in 1933 to H. W. Crosby, Seattle, WA.
  • Sold in 1937 to Chignick Packing Co., Seattle, WA.
  • Sold in 1941to Western Shipping Co, Seattle, WA. .renamed MV Western Trader
  • Acquired by the Navy, 14 March 1942, designated YAG-11
  • Renamed Baranof (YAG-11), 20 April 1942
  • Fitted out at Seattle for Naval service
  • Commissioned USS Baranof (YAG-11), 22 May 1942, Lt. George Jessen, USNR in command from 1 August 1942
  • During World War II Baranof served in the 17th Naval District, Alaska Territories as a cargo ship
  • Reassigned to the 12th Naval District at San Francisco, circa January-February 1944
  • Decommissioned, 2 March 1944, at Naval Station Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA.
  • The name Baranof was withdrawn from YAG-11, 1 March 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register in September 1945
  • Laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Puget Sound
  • Transferred to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) in January 1947, for disposal
  • Sold by WSA in 1948 to Washington Fish and Oyster Co., Seattle, WA. for commercial operations, renamed MV Western Trader
  • Final Disposition, disappeared from the American Bureau of Shipping Register in 1968, fate unknown.
    Specifications:
    Displacement 328 t.
    Length 120' 1"
    Beam 24' 1"
    Draft 10' 6" (depth of hold)
    Speed unknown
    Complement 27
    Armament
    one single 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount
    two .50-cal. machine guns
    one .30-cal. machine guns
    two depth charge racks
    Propulsion two 4-cylinder diesels, twin propellers, 200bhp
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