net laying ship

The net laying ship completed repairs and put to sea on 15 September.

AN, the United States Navy hull classification symbol for "net laying ship"

The net laying ship returned to the Philippines to serve off Leyte from 15 January 1946 until the middle of September.

On 14 October, the net laying ship set course for Tanapag harbor, Saipan, with a load of nets.

On 26 October, she began delivering nets to smaller net laying ships which towed them into place and installed them to protect the lagoon anchorage.

During her overhaul at Pearl Harbor, she was reclassified a net laying ship and was redesignated AN-9.

On the 24th, the net laying ship steamed to Melville, Rhode Island, for shakedown training which she completed on 11 September.

Assigned to Hawaii net laying ship duty, she engaged in harbor operations at Pearl Harbor from 7 June to January 1948.

A net laying ship, also known as a net layer, net tender, gate ship or boom defence vessel was a type of small auxiliary ship.

After conducting shakedown training in Puget Sound, the net laying ship got underway for Alaska and reached Dutch Harbor on 20 May.

The net laying ship reached San Francisco, California, on 15 August 1952 but moved south to San Diego, California, soon thereafter.

That duty lasted until 7 April when the net laying ship departed Miami in company with Marietta (AN-82) for New Orleans, Louisiana.

Following brief shakedown training out of Norfolk, Virginia and Boston, Massachusetts, the net laying ship sailed on 11 August for the Pacific Ocean.

The net laying ship then steamed for the Gilbert Islands, arriving Tarawa 23 May to pick up six pontoon barges for tow to Majuro.

The World War II Ailanthus-class net laying ship USS Canotia (AN-47) was named after this tree.

USS Salem (CM-11) was a commercial cargo ship, that served as a minelayer and then net laying ship of the United States Navy during World War II.

After fitting out, shakedown training out of San Pedro, California, and post shakedown repairs, the net laying ship sailed for Hawaii and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 29 June.

USS Buckeye (AN-13/YN-8) was an Aloe-class net laying ship which was assigned to serve the U.S. Navy during World War II with her protective anti-submarine nets.

HMS Preventer (Z265) was a net laying ship for the Royal Navy during the Second World War acquired from the United States Navy in September 1944 via Lend-Lease.

The net laying ship departed Sturgeon Bay on 19 May and, after a voyage across the Great Lakes and down the St. Lawrence River, arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, on 4 June.

USS Teak (AN-35/YN-30) was an Aloe-class net laying ship which served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Ocean theatre of operations during World War II.

USS Yazoo (YN-121/AN-92) was a Cohoes-class net laying ship which was assigned to protect United States Navy ships and harbors during World War II with her anti-submarine nets.

Reclassified a net laying ship and redesignated AN-35 on 20 January 1944, Teak passed under the Golden Gate Bridge shortly before sunset on 2 March and set her course for the South Pacific Ocean.

The fort remained active through World War I and was used during World War II as a naval net depot for net laying ships and as a control station for the Casco Bay degaussing range.

The Ailanthus class were a group of 40 wooden-hulled net laying ships of the United States Navy built during World War II as part of the huge building programs of late 1941 and early 1942 for small patrol and mine warfare vessels.