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YP-337

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Whiskey - Sierra - Xray
NWSX
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

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

District Patrol Craft
  • Built by Johnson Brothers, Seattle, WA
  • Completed for San Juan Fishing and Packing Co., Seward, AK, as fishing vessel San Juan (ON 229373), 1930
  • Acquired by the Navy, 19 February 1942
  • Delivered to NSB, Seattle, for fitting out, 23 April 1942
  • Placed in service as YP-337, May 1942
  • Departed Seattle for Alaska, 20 May 1942
  • Operated in Alaskan waters, 1942 - 1945
  • Departed Dutch Harbor, AK, for Seattle to be placed out of service, 27 July 1945
  • Placed out of service, 28 September 1945
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 24 October 1945
  • Transferred to WSA (War Shipping Administration) for disposal, 30 October 1945
  • Registered to C.E. Anderson, Juneau, AK, renamed Virginia I, 1946
  • Registered to Seldovia Bay Packing Co., Seattle, WA, 1947
  • Registered to Farwest Fishermen, Inc., Seattle, WA, 1954
  • Registered to Whitney & Co., Anacortes, WA, 1958
  • Registered to Erskine M. Nicol, Poulsbo, WA, 1959
  • Renamed Spray, 1962
  • Registered to Albert Reynolds, Caspar, CA, reverted to San Juan, 1963
  • Registered to Bruce Abernathy, Fort Bragg, CA, 1968
  • Registered to Gressett family, Fort Bragg, CA, as passenger vessel, circa 2005
  • Holed by log and foundered at moorings on Noyo River, CA, early 2017
  • Final disposition, removed and dismantled several months later
    Specifications:
    Displacement 72 gross tons, 49 net tons
    Length 71' 9"
    Beam 17' 9"
    Draft 8' 6"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament unknown
    Propulsion
    one Diesel engine
    one propeller, 135shp

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    YP-337
    143133701
    106k San Juan pierside, Los Angeles harbor, 11 December 1979. Photo copyright George Schneider. George Schneider
    YP-337
    143133702
    102k Broadside view of San Juan pierside, Los Angeles harbor, 11 December 1979. Photo copyright George Schneider. George Schneider
    YP-337
    143133703
    474k San Juan moored in a dillapidated state on the Noyo River near Fort Bragg, CA, 22 September 2016. Photo copyright Kyle Stubbs. Kyle Stubbs

    There is no DANFS history record available for YP-337 at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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