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|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{USN flag|1946}}
|Ship name=''Passaconaway''
|Ship namesake= [[Passaconaway]]
|Ship builder=Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., [[Duluth, Minnesota]]
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|Ship laid down=15 April 1944
|Ship launched=30 June 1944
|Ship sponsor=Miss Elizabeth Jayne Hughes
|Ship commissioned=27 April 1945
|Ship decommissioned=December 1946, at [[San Diego, California]]
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|Ship identification=*YN-111
*AN-86 (January 1944)
|Ship fate=transferred to the [[Dominican Navy]], September 1976
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|Ship country=Dominican Republic
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Dominican Republic|naval}}
|Ship name=''Separación''
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|Ship acquired=September 1976<ref name=Wertheim>{{cite book | editor-last = Wertheim | editor-first = Eric | edition = 15th | title = The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems | chapter = Dominican Republic | location = [[Annapolis, Maryland]] | publisher = [[Naval Institute Press]] | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-1-59114-955-2 | oclc = 140283156 | page = 163 }}</ref>
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|Ship identification=P208
|Ship status={{ship in active service|2007}}<ref name=Wertheim />
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|Ship class={{sclass|Cohoes|net laying ship}}
|Ship displacement=775 tons
|Ship length={{convert|168|ft|6|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|33|ft|10|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship draft={{convert|10|ft|9|in|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=[[Diesel-electric]], {{convert|2,500|hp|kW|abbr=on}}
|Ship speed={{convert|12|kn}}
|Ship complement=46 officers and enlisted
|Ship armament=*1 x [[3"/50 caliber gun]]
* 3 x single [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]] gun mounts
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'''USS ''Passaconaway'' (YN-111/AN-86)''' was a {{sclass|Cohoes|net laying ship}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She was commissioned in April 1945 and spent her entire career in the Pacific Ocean. She was decommissioned in December 1946 and placed in reserve. She was sold to the [[Dominican Republic]] in September 1976 as [[patrol vessel]] '''''Separación'' (P208)'''. {{As of|2007}}, ''Separación'' remained active in the [[Dominican Navy]].

==Career==
''Passaconaway'' (AN–86), The second ship to be so named by the Navy, authorized as ''YN-111'', was laid down 15 April 1944 by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Co., [[Duluth, Minnesota]]; launched 30 June 1944, sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Jayne Hughes; commissioned 27 April 1945.

Following [[shakedown cruise|shakedown]], ''Passaconaway'' transited the [[Panama Canal]] and served with [[ServRon]] 4 during the later stages of World War II. She tended anti-submarine nets in the [[Admiralty Islands]] during the summer of 1945, then for the next 12 months was engaged throughout the Western [[Pacific Ocean]] in other operations common to her type.  She laid channel buoys in the [[Caroline Islands]], conducted salvage operations and set mooring buoys in the [[Mariana Islands]], and assisted other ships in supplying [[Marcus Island]] and [[Iwo Jima]].  Following a brush with a [[typhoon]] in the spring of 1946, she was ordered to [[Pearl Harbor]] for repairs after which she returned to [[San Diego, California]], where she decommissioned in December.

''Passaconaway'' was transferred to the [[U.S. Maritime Administration]] in October 1962 as a part of the [[National Defense Reserve Fleet]] at Suisun Bay, California, until being transferred to MARAD National Defense Reserve Fleet, [[Suisun Bay]], [[Benicia, California]], in October 1970. ''Passaconaway'' was transferred to the [[Dominican Republic]] in September 1976 as [[patrol vessel]] ''Separación'' (P208). {{As of|2007}}, the ship remained in active service with the [[Dominican Navy]].<ref name=Wertheim />

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/passaconaway-ii.html}}
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/18/18086.htm NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - YN-111 / AN-86 Passaconaway]

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