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YSD-27


YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
  • Built by Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Pearl Harbor, HI
  • Laid down 08 August 1941
  • Launched, 07 November 1941
  • Completed as the steel-hull Seaplane Wrecking Derrick YSD-27, 18 December 1941
  • Allocated to the Fourteenth Naval District during World War II
  • YSD-27 supported salvage of battleships at Pearl Harbor, December 1941 - November 1942
  • Served as station barge at Johnston Island, December 1942 - unknown date
  • Served at Eniwetok during 1944
  • Postwar allocated to Tenth Naval District at Roosevelt Roads, PR
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 01 August 1971
  • Sold, 24 August 1972
  • Registered to White Star Management, Miami, FL, as freighter El Tuto (ON 580093), 1976
  • Final disposition, fate unknown (last documented 2002)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 220 tons (lt) 270 tons(fl)
    Length 104'
    Beam 31' 2"
    Draft 4'
    Speed 10 knots
    Derrick
    one American Hoist & Derrick model 685 rotating crane
    boom 54 ft.
    lifting capacity 10 tons
    powered by a 6 cylinder Cummins Diesel
    Accommodations
    Officers 1
    Enlisted 15
    Ship's Service Generators
    one 30Kw Diesel Generator set
    one 20Kw Diesel Generator set
    Propulsion
    two Superior model MRDB-8 200 HP Diesel engines
    two propellers, 640shp

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    69k YSD-27 moored at Roosevelt Roads awaiting sale, 1972. Photo from sales brochure. George Schneider

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