Jacona (YFP-1)
1947-1971
The Navy retained the name carried by this vessel at the time of her acquisition.
(YFP-1: displacement 350 (light); length 396’0” (overall); beam 53'0" (extreme); draft 17'0" (maximum navigational); class YFP-1)
Jacona was completed in April 1919 for the United States Shipping Board at Tacoma, Wash., by the Todd Drydock & Construction Corp. She operated as a freighter until 1930 when she was converted to a non-self-propelled floating power barge by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. Subsequently, the ship was owned by the New England Public Service Co., at Augusta, Maine, and the Public Service Co. of the state of New Hampshire, and moored at Manchester. She was transferred to the Maritime Commission at 2:30 p.m. on 17 March 1945, at Portsmouth, N.H., for use by the U.S. Army under a bare boat charter.
Jacona came under Navy jurisdiction in 1947 and was classified YFP-1, on 31 December 1947. The craft was towed to the Pacific, and used at various advance bases and at Korean ports as an auxiliary power supply, capable of producing 20,000 kilowatts of power. Jacona was on loan to the Army in the Pacific since 1947, and was ultimately stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 May 1971. She was disposed of, by Navy Sale, on 1 October 1971.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
13 March 2023
