Yew (YN-37)
1942-1949
An evergreen tree and shrub that yields valuable timbers for cabinet-making and archery.
(YN-37: displacement 560 (light); beam 30'6"; draft 11'8"; speed 12.5 knots; complement 48; armament 1 3-inch, 4 20 millimeter; class Aloe)
Yew (YN-37) was laid down on 22 May 1941 at Camden, N.J., by the John H. Mathis Co.; launched on 4 October 1941; sponsored by Miss Alice E. Morgan, daughter of Cmdr. Aylmer L. Morgan, USN (Ret.), office of the Supervisor of Shipbuilding at the building yard; placed in service on 1 July 1942; and commissioned on 30 September 1942, Lt. George S. McNulty, D-V(G), USNR, officer in charge.
Reclassified as AN-37 on 1 January 1944, the net tender was decommissioned at Oran, Algeria, on 30 November 1944 and simultaneously transferred to the French Navy under lend-lease. She served as Scorpion (A-728) until she was nominally returned by the French on 21 March 1949 but was sold outright to the French on the same day.
Yew, was stricken from the Navy list on 28 April 1949.
Scorpion served the French Navy into the mid-1970's before she was disposed of.
Updated, Robert J. Cressman
16 February 2022
