Any sources for the USS Yakutat Deck Logs during Vietnam War?
Any sources for the USS Yakutat Deck Logs during Vietnam War?
Dear Maria Secrest,
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We searched the Logbooks of Ships and Shore Installations, 1948–1972 in the Records of the U.S. Coast Guard (Record Group 26) and located digitized deck logs of the United States Coast Guard Yakutat cutter for 1960 through 1970. Please note that the Catalog does not always list logs in chronological order. To download the logs for a given month as a single PDF file, click on the link that says “Download Image Provided by: Veterans Benefits Administration / Blue Water Navy Deck Log Project”.
We hope this is helpful.
If your question is in regards to an agent orange exposure VA claim, below is a list of dates and times that as of Oct 2022 VA shows Yakutat was in the eligible AO exposure area. You can pull logs for those dates and save some time searching. Also included is a Google Earth plot of those locations (yellowdots inside the red boundary line). There could be additional events as well.
NAME | DATE | TIME | LAT | LON |
YAKUTAT | 31-May-1967 | 0800 | 8 26N | 105 39E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Jun-1967 | 0800 | 08 14N | 105 9E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Jul-1967 | 0800 | 10 21N | 107 31E |
YAKUTAT | 11-Aug-1967 | 0800 | 10 38N | 108 7E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Sep-1967 | 0800 | 10 30N | 107 59E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Oct-1967 | 0800 | 08 48N | 104 28E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Nov-1967 | 0800 | 10 38N | 108 0E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Dec-1967 | 0800 | 10 52N | 109 2E |
YAKUTAT | 9-Jun-1970 | 1200 | 8 44N | 107 12E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Jul-1970 | 0800 | 8 16N | 105 17E |
YAKUTAT | 2-Aug-1970 | 0800 | 9 2N | 104 46E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Sep-1970 | 0800 | 8 34N | 105 39E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Oct-1970 | 0800 | 09 10N | 104 42E |
YAKUTAT | 1-Nov-1970 | 0800 | 09 2N | 104 45E |