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YR-48

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

YR-44 Class Floating Workshop:

Built by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA

Laid down, 23 March 1943

Launched, 02 April 1943

Completed as non-self propelled Floating Workshop YR-48, 15 January 1943

Stationed at Noumea, 1943 - 1945

Towed by Vulcan (AR-5) from Noumea to Ulithi, 01-15 April 1945

Stationed at Ulithi and Okinawa, 1945

Towed by ATA-215 from Guam to Pearl, January 1946

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

So1d through the Security Assistance Program (SAP) to Venezuela, December 1977

Final disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 530 tons (lt) 760 tons (fl)
Length 150'
Beam 36'
Draft 6'
Accommodations

Officers 1

Enlisted 40
Machinery unknown

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Source
	79k	A section of YR-48 being moved from the structural shop to Dry Dock #4 where the repair barge was constructed at Mare Island. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 2035-43.		Darryl Baker
	76k	YR-48 at Ulithi, November 1945.		Colleen Mathis

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