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YP-240

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Yankee - Oscar - November NYON

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

District Patrol Craft

Built by Campbell Machine Co., San Diego, CA

Completed for Laurie Massa, San diego, CA, as tuna clipper Conte Bianco (ON 233601), 1934

Acquired by Navy, 18 December 1941

Placed in service as YP-240, date unknown

Departed San Diego for Southwest Pacific, September 1942

Broke down at Tutulia, American Samoa

Towed from Tutuila to Pearl Harbor by Kingfisher (AT-135), 118-30 October 1942

Departed Pearl for Tutuila, 26 March 1943

Operated out of Samoa and Fiji, 1943 - 1944

Departed Suva, Fiji for Noumea, 23 January 1944

Assigned Service Force, Seventh Fleet, operating in Australian and New Guinea waters, 1944 - 1945

Arrived Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, January 1946

Placed out of service at San Diego, 15 March 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, 05 June 1946

To WSA (War Shipping Administration) for disposal, 18 May 1946

Sold to Roko Katnic, San Pedro, CA, 1946

Sold to Stefano Massa, San Diego, CA, 1949

Sold to Serafino Parmigiani, San Diego, CA, renamed Far Famed, 1951

Sold to Maurice Bernardini, San Diego, CA, 1956

Sold to James R. Gallion, Coronado, CA, 1959

To Panamanian flag, 1962

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 259 gross tons, 158 net tons
Length 111' 7"
Beam 27' 7"
Draft 9' 4"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament unknown
Propulsion Diesel

single propeller, 410bhp

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	73k	Newly completed *Conte Bianco* on a trial run, 28 December 1934. Photo from Castagnola family, via San Diego Tuna Boats website.		Dave Wright
	20k	*Conte Bianco* pierside at San Diego during the 1930s. Photo from Guy Sensor Collection, San Diego History Center.		Dave Wright

Commanding Officers
01	LT(jg) William Watson Hogben D-V(G), USNR	(May 1944 - ????)

There is no DANFS history available for YP-240 at NavSource

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

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Last Updated 08 August 2019