USS Passaconaway (AN-86)

History
United States
Name	Passaconaway
Namesake	Passaconaway
Builder	Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota
Laid down	15 April 1944
Launched	30 June 1944
Sponsored by	Miss Elizabeth Jayne Hughes
Commissioned	27 April 1945
Decommissioned	December 1946, at San Diego, California
Identification	YN-111; AN-86 (January 1944);
Fate	transferred to the Dominican Navy, September 1976
Dominican Republic
Name	Separación
Acquired	September 1976
Identification	P208
Status	in active service, as of 2007
General characteristics
Class and type	Cohoes-class net laying ship
Displacement	775 tons
Length	168 ft 6 in (51.36 m)
Beam	33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
Draft	10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)
Propulsion	Diesel-electric, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW)
Speed	12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	46 officers and enlisted
Armament	1 x 3"/50 caliber gun; 3 x single 20 mm gun mounts;

USS Passaconaway (YN-111/AN-86) was a Cohoes-class net laying ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was commissioned in April 1945 and spent her entire career in the Pacific Ocean. She was decommissioned in December 1946 and placed in reserve. She was sold to the Dominican Republic in September 1976 as patrol vessel Separación (P208). As of 2007^[update], Separación remained active in the Dominican Navy.

Career[edit]

Passaconaway (AN–86), The second ship to be so named by the Navy, authorized as YN-111, was laid down 15 April 1944 by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., Duluth, Minnesota; launched 30 June 1944, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Jayne Hughes; commissioned 27 April 1945.

Following shakedown, Passaconaway transited the Panama Canal and served with ServRon 4 during the later stages of World War II. She tended anti-submarine nets in the Admiralty Islands during the summer of 1945, then for the next 12 months was engaged throughout the Western Pacific Ocean in other operations common to her type. She laid channel buoys in the Caroline Islands, conducted salvage operations and set mooring buoys in the Mariana Islands, and assisted other ships in supplying Marcus Island and Iwo Jima. Following a brush with a typhoon in the spring of 1946, she was ordered to Pearl Harbor for repairs after which she returned to San Diego, California, where she decommissioned in December.

Passaconaway was transferred to the U.S. Maritime Administration in October 1962 as a part of the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay, California, until being transferred to MARAD National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benicia, California, in October 1970. Passaconaway was transferred to the Dominican Republic in September 1976 as patrol vessel Separación (P208). As of 2007^[update], the ship remained in active service with the Dominican Navy.^[1]

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Wertheim, Eric, ed. (2007). "Dominican Republic". The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.

References[edit]

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - YN-111 / AN-86 Passaconaway

[Wertheim-1] Wertheim, Eric, ed. (2007). "Dominican Republic". The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (15th ed.). Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2. OCLC 140283156.

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