USS Yosemite (AD-19)
USS Yosemite (AD-19)
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| Name: | USS Yosemite (AD-19) |
| Namesake: | Yosemite Valley |
| Builder: | Tampa Shipbuilding |
| Laid down: | 19 January 1942 |
| Launched: | 16 May 1943 |
| Sponsored by: | Mrs. Melville W. Powers |
| Commissioned: | 26 March 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 January 1994 |
| Fate: | Sunk as target, 18 November 2003 |
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| Displacement: | 14,037 tons (lt), 17,176 t.(fl) |
| Length: | 530 ft 6 in |
| Beam: | 73 ft 4 in |
| Draft: | 25 ft 6 in |
| Propulsion: | Geared turbine, twin screws, 11,300 hp |
| Speed: | 19.6 knots |
| Complement: | 1,076 |
| Armament: | 4 x 5"/38 caliber dual-purpose guns, 8 x single 40mm guns, 23 x 20mm guns |
USS Yosemite (AD-19) was a destroyer tender which served with the United States Navy during World War II through to the 1990s.
The fourth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name, Yosemite was laid down on 19 January 1942 by the Tampa Shipbuilding Company at Tampa, Florida; launched on 16 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Melville W. Powers; and commissioned on 25 March 1944, Captain George C. Towner in command.
Between late March and mid-June of 1944, the destroyer tender was fitted out at Tampa. On 21 June, she got underway for the Virginia Capes, steamed via Key West, and arrived at Hampton Roads on the 26th. For the next 10 days, the destroyer tender conducted shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay and then put into Norfolk for additional outfitting and some modifications to her below-deck spaces.
Early in August, she made a voyage to Fort Pond Bay, New York, to load torpedoes. On the 6th, she headed south to Guantanamo Bay and thence proceeded to the Panama Canal Zone, transited the Panama Canal, and arrived at Balboa on the 13th. From there, the ship continued her voyage west to Hawaii and arrived in Pearl Harbor on 29 August.
As soon as she moored, Yosemite went to work. For the next six months, the ship's company made repairs on over 200 ships. She remained at Oahu until February 1945. On the 15th, she exited the harbor and set a course for Eniwetok Atoll in the Caroline Islands. She arrived there on the 22d but remained for only five days before moving farther westward to the forward base at Ulithi Atoll. She entered the Ulithi anchorage on 3 March, and her crew set again to work repairing the veteran ships of the war in the Pacific.
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