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Photo # NH 84683:  USS Cliffrose, circa 1945

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USS Cliffrose (AN-42, originally YN-61), 1944-1947

USS Cliffrose, a 1100-ton Ailanthus-class net tender, was built at Everett, Washington. Originally classified as a district craft, she was launched with the designation YN-61 in November 1943 but was redesignated AN-42 in January 1944 and commissioned as such at the end of April 1944. Cliffrose went to the Pacific war zone in the summer, participated in the Peleliu invasion in September 1944 and stayed in the Palaus area until December. Following brief service at Ulithi, Carolina Islands, in April 1945 she took part in the Okinawa campaign and remained in the Ryukyu Islands until early August, shortly before Japan agreed to surrender. Between September and December 1945 Cliffrose was stationed at Okinawa and in Japanese waters. She spent the first half of 1946 on the U.S. West Coast, then served at Pearl Harbor, Guam and in the Philippines until late December of that year. USS Cliffrose was decommissioned at Shanghai in early January 1947 and turned over to China.

This page features the only view we have concerning USS Cliffrose (AN-42, originally YN-61).


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Photo #: NH 84683

USS Cliffrose
(AN-42)

In a harbor, circa 1945.
She appears to be lifting a large anchor.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 19762.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 43KB; 740 x 455 pixels

 


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