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The boat had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). The 104-foot was large enough to operate in the open ocean easily. Some 104-foot boats worked in the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands; these had cold weather options installed. The cold weather options had a heating system, ice protection on the hull, and insulation.
She spent her entire career serving in the Aleutian Islands during the Aleutian Islands Campaign. [1] YP-86 was decommissioned on 27 June 1944 and struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 18 July 1944. [1] On 6 October 1944, she was transferred to the United States Maritime Administration. [1]
The two islands are joined by a bridge connecting the city of Unalaska to the southern portion of Amaknak Island. During World War II the entirety of Amaknak Island was used by the United States Navy as an operating base, and by the United States Army , which manned coastal defenses on the high ground at the northern and southern parts of the ...
In a warm-up cruise, prior to her next West-Pac deployment, Currituck made an Alaskan voyage that spanned the Aleutian Islands, operating with VP-47 equipped with P5Ms. Currituck, on this operation, provided the rare opportunity to visit the port of Anchorage, Alaska, and became the largest ship ever to visit that port. Fifty hours at a buoy ...
Through the remainder of the year, she conducted patrols to the west of the outer Aleutians. On 4 February 1944, she began bombardment missions in the Kuriles which continued, alternated with antishipping sweeps, for the remainder of World War II. [3] With the end of hostilities, Richmond covered the occupation of northern Japan.
After shakedown, the destroyer sailed from San Francisco 28 December 1942 for the fog-shrouded Aleutian Islands and reached Sand Bay, Great Sitkin Island, 9 January 1943.. After conducting escort, ASW, and patrolling duties among the scattered Aleutians, she saw her first action 18 February when, with Indianapolis and Richmond, she bombarded Attu Island, without return fi
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter on routine patrol around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands came across a Russian ship in international waters but within the U.S. exclusive economic zone, officials said. The ...
The Aleutian Islands campaign (Japanese: アリューシャン方面の戦い, romanized: Aryūshan hōmen no tatakai) was a military campaign fought between 3 June 1942 and 15 August 1943 on and around the Aleutian Islands in the American Theater of World War II during the Pacific War. It was the only military campaign of World War II fought ...