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Menewa (YNT-2)
ex
 Menewa (YN-34) (1940 - 1942)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Alpha - Delta - Juliet
 NADJ
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal
Yard Net Laying Craft:
  • Built by Ira S. Bushey & Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, NY (YN 477)
  • Completed for Motor Tug Consultor, Inc., as tug Consultor (ON 239904), 1937
  • Purchased by the Navy from Bushey, 16 August 1940
  • Renamed Menewa, 23 August 1940
  • Converted for naval service at New York Navy Yard
  • Placed in service, 09 September 1940
  • Assigned to Fifteenth Naval District, stationed at Cristobal, CZ
  • Redesignated Yard Net Tender Tug YNT-2, 01 May 1942
  • Capsized while making repairs to net at Cristobal, 26 January 1943
  • Salvage operations begun by Mallard (ASR-4), 03 February 1943
  • Salvaged and capsized again in tow of salvage vessel off Pier 6, Cristobal, 07 April 1943
  • Refloated, repaired and continued to operate in sheltered waters until war's end
  • Placed out of service, December 1945 (or 10 January 1947, sources differ)
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 14 March 1947
  • To FLC Foreign Liquidation Commission for disposal, 24 September 1947
  • To Peruvian Navy as Tigre, 1947
  • Later renamed Franco (ARB-124)
  • Operated on Upper Amazon
  • Final disposition, fate unknown (said to have been stricken by 1999)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 132 tons, 88 net tons
    Length 83' 4" waterline, 91' overall
    Beam 23'
    Draft 11'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    Propulsion
    one Fairbanks-Morse 7-cylinder diesel engine
    single propeller, 805shp
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    DANFS entry located at the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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