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'''USS ''Boxwood'' (YN-3/AN-8)''' was an [[Aloe-class net laying ship|''Aloe''-class]] [[net laying ship]] which was assigned to serve [[U.S. Navy]] ships and harbors during World War II with her protective anti-[[submarine]] nets.

== Career ==
''Boxwood'' (YN-3)—originally named ''Birch'' but renamed before her construction began—was laid down on 19 November 1940 at [[Houghton, Washington]], by the [[Lake Washington Shipyard]]; launched on 8 March 1941; and placed in service on 25 July 1941 at the [[Puget Sound Navy Yard]], [[Bremerton, Washington]]. Assigned to duty with the Inshore Patrol, [[13th Naval District]], the net tender reported to the section headquarters at [[Seattle, Washington]], on 6 August and commenced operating between that port, [[Port Townsend]], and [[Port Angeles]], performing various towing tasks within the district. One typical chore was her towing of targets for the gunboat {{USS|Charleston|PG-51|6}} during September and October 1941.

The [[Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]] on 7 December 1941 prompted a flurry of defensive activity along the [[U.S. West Coast]]. The plans for the net defense of the [[Puget Sound]] area having been worked out in advance, ''Boxwood'' joined {{USS|Butternut|YN-4|2}} and {{USS|Eucalyptus|YN-11|2}} in installing the Rich Pass antisubmarine net line in Puget Sound, commencing the work soon after 7 December and bringing it to completion on 27 January 1942. Over the ensuing weeks, ''Boxwood'' remained on station in the Rich Pass area, maintaining the net line and occasionally conducting local patrol work.

On 16 February, ''Boxwood'' sailed for [[Indian Island, Washington]], and was soon busily engaged in work at the Net Depot there, installing an antisubmarine net line at Port Townsend, a combination [[antisubmarine]] and anti-torpedo net line at Marrowstone Spit, and a fine mesh net line across the [[Port Townsend Ship Canal|Portage Canal]]. She completed the installation of approximately a mile and a half of netting on 11 July and remained in the Puget Sound area tending nets for the remainder of 1942. Placed in full commission on 2 January 1943, ''Boxwood'' resumed her tending tasks after her overhaul at Todd, Seattle, shipyard and carried them out through the spring of 1943.

== Alaskan duty ==
Departing the Seattle area on 26 June 1943, ''Boxwood'' relieved {{USS|Buckeye|YN-8|2}} at [[Adak Island|Adak]], in the [[Aleutians]], and assisted in the installation of antitorpedo net lines at Adak and [[Sand Bay]], and helped in laying fleet mooring buoys. After tending nets in the Adak area during the invasion of [[Kiska]], ''Boxwood'' proceeded to Kiska as a replacement for a [[destroyer]] operating off that island and thus gained the distinction of being the first net tender in that area. Soon after ''Boxwood's'' arrival, ''Buckeye'' joined her; and the two ships installed cruiser moorings in Kiska harbor, as well as approximately two miles of a combination anti-torpedo and submarine-indicator net.

Resuming her duties at Adak in October 1943, ''Boxwood'' later received minor damage while assisting the grounded destroyer {{USS|King|DD-242|2}} in [[Kulak Bay]]. During her operations in these northern climes, ''Boxwood'' was redesignated ''AN-8'' on 20 January 1944.

Ordered to [[Kiska]] on 15 February 1944, ''Boxwood'' proceeded thence and repaired some of the cruiser moorings that she had laid there earlier. Completing this task by 27 February, the net tender sailed to [[Attu Island|Attu]], where she tended net defenses until relieved by {{USS|Buckthorn|AN-14|2}} on 26 September. Upon completion of repairs and alterations at Adak on 31 October, ''Boxwood'' resumed tending the net defenses there early in November 1944. Subsequently ordered to Attu on 10 January 1945, ''Boxwood'' arrived on station two days later and relieved ''Buckthorn''. Relieved by that ship on 22 June 1945 to return to Adak for overhaul, ''Boxwood'' was still undergoing repairs and alterations when [[Empire of Japan|Japan]] capitulated in mid-August 1945. Upon completion of the overhaul on 20 August 1945, ''Boxwood'' resumed her net tending tasks, only to receive orders to begin removing the net defenses at Adak on the 21st. Assisted by ''Buckthorn'' and {{USS|Mulberry|AN-27|2}}, ''Boxwood'' finished this work by 14 September.

Boxwood sailed for [[Kodiak, Alaska]], on 6 October and served there until 28 November when she was ordered to [[Dutch Harbor]]. Attached to the naval operating base there, ''Boxwood'' performed utility jobs such as transporting mail and stores to nearby island bases and decommissioned the radio station at [[Caton Island]], [[Alaska]]. During 1946, ''Boxwood'' made several trips carrying passengers and mail between various bases in the [[Alaskan Sea Frontier]] and the naval station at [[Seattle, Washington]], through mid-August 1946 when she entered the [[Puget Sound Naval Shipyard]].

In the fall of 1946, ''Boxwood'' underwent a preinactivation overhaul at the [[Kaiser Shipyard]], [[Vancouver, Washington]]. She was decommissioned on 13 November 1946 and was turned over to the [[Portland, Oregon]], Sub-group of the [[19th Fleet]] and moored at [[Swan Island (Oregon)|Swan Island]], [[Portland, Oregon]]. She remained inactive until her name was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy List]] on 9 October 1962. Shifted to the [[National Defense Reserve Fleet]] at [[Suisun Bay]], California, the ship was carried on vessel inventory reports through the end of 1974. Subsequent fate not known.

== References ==
* {{DANFS|https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/boxwood-i.html}}
* [http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/18/18008.htm NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - YN-3 ''Birch'' / ''Boxwood'' - AN-8 ''Boxwood'']

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