_underway_c1965.jpg) USS Yancey (AKA-93) in 1965
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Yancey |
| Namesake | Yancey County, North Carolina |
| Builder | Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland, California |
| Yard number | 280[1] |
| Laid down | 22 May 1944 |
| Launched | 8 July 1944 |
| Sponsored by | Miss Beverly Bartlett |
| Commissioned | 11 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | March 1958 |
| Recommissioned | 17 November 1961 |
| Decommissioned | 20 January 1971 |
| Stricken | 1 January 1977 |
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| Fate | Sunk as an artificial reef off Morehead City, NC, 1990 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Andromeda-class attack cargo ship |
| Type | C2-S-B1 |
| Tonnage | 4,450 long tons deadweight (DWT) |
| Displacement | 13,910 long tons (14,130 t) (fully loaded)[2] |
| Length | |
| Beam | 63 ft (19 m)[2] |
| Draft | 26 ft 4 in (8.03 m)[2] |
| Propulsion | 1 × steam turbine[3] |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h)[2] |
| Boats & landing craft carried | |
| Complement | 368[2] |
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USS Yancey (AKA-93/LKA-93) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship built by the Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland, California for the United States Navy during World War II. The ship was named in honor of Yancey County, North Carolina.
Yancey's keel was laid in May 1944, and the ship was launched in July, and commissioned in October. The ship operated in the Pacific during the war and was a participant in the amphibious landings at Iwo Jima in February 1945 and Okinawa in April. After Japan's surrender in August, Yancey was in Tokyo Bay during the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on 2 September. The ship made voyages delivering troops for the occupation of Japan before returning to the United States in January 1946. After spending most of the next year on the east coast, Yancey was ordered back into the Pacific in November, and took part in Operation Highjump, a Navy expedition to Antarctica in January 1947; Yancey Glacier was named in the ship's honor.
After spending most of the next decade in duties in the Western Pacific, Yancey was decommissioned in March 1958 and placed in reserve at Olympia, Washington. Yancey was reactivated in the aftermath of the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and recommissioned in November. During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis she sailed in support of the U.S. blockade of Cuba, and during the April 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic she carried almost a quarter of all of the evacuees from Santo Domingo. In January 1970, Yancey was blown by a storm into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel which closed the structure for several weeks.
The ship was decommissioned for the final time in January 1971, and struck from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1977. After being stripped of salvageable materials, the ship was sunk as an artificial reef off the North Carolina coast in 1990. The ship is intact and rests on her starboard side at a depth of 160 feet (49 m).
- ^ a b "Yancey (6120740)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 17 April 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Yancey". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 17 April 2009.