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Ferry Boats and Launches (YFB)

All these vessels were used for personnel movement within a harbor district. If anyone can fill any of the gaps, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.

Most recent update: 6 August 2015.

Type # Shipbuilder Location Original Name Navy Name LDT LOA Built YFB Disposition
YFB 1 New Orleans LA Nahma Asp 72 1902 1902 Sold 1923
YFB 2 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA Admiral Glass Admiral Glass 87 85 1916 1916 Sold 1927
YFB 3 Herreshoff Mfg. Bristol RI Talbot (TB 15) Berceau 46 200 1898 1912 Scrapped 1944
YFB 4 Herreshoff Mfg. Bristol RI Gwin (TB 16) Cyane 46 200 1898 1914 Scrapped 1925
YFB 5 Fore River SB Quincy MA Ripple Faithful 457 114 1910 1918 To Russia 1917 as T 44, returned 1918, back to Russia 1919
YFB 6 Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME Steam Cutter No. 423 Hustle 66 1902 1902 Despatch 1908, Hustle 1918, decommissioned 1921
YFB 7 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA Leslie Leslie 75 1903 1903 Sold 1930 as Del Draco, Basalt No. 1 1938, Ocean Comet 1947, Mt. Comet, sank 1987
YFB 8 Norfolk NSY Portsmouth VA Steam Cutter No. 291 Navy Yard 80 1901 1901 Scrapped 1929
YFB 9 Cancelled
YFB 10 Charleston NSY Charleston SC Wave Wave 105 1916 1916 Struck 1938
YFB 11 Cavite NS Cavite PI Callao (PG 37) Callao 243 121 1888 1921 Sold 1923
YFB 12 Hong Kong & Whampoa Hong Kong Engineer San Felipe 299 111 1907 1922 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 13 Hong Kong & Whampoa Hong Kong YT 106 Christine 125 1902 Sold 1935
YFB 14 Bath Iron Works Bath ME Aquidneck Aquidneck 544 151 1937 1937 To Pierce County WA 1975 as Steilacoom, sold 2008 as Point Ruston, active
YFB 15 Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Brooklyn NY Poughkeepsie Conanicut 150 1922 1940 Served 1940 to 1954
YFB 16 Supple & Martin Portland OR Multnomah Manuwai 288 145 1927 1940 Struck 1954
YFB 17 Pearl Harbor NSY Honolulu HI Nihoa Nihoa 288 145 1941 1941 Struck 1961
YFB 18 Madisonville SB Madisonville LA Madisonville Monhegan 114 1927 1940 Struck 1946
YFB 19 Puget Sound NSY Bremerton WA Vashon Vashon 22 65 1941 1941 Sold 1958
YFB 20 Neafie & Levy Philadelphia PA Dida League Island 425 136 1907 1941 Machigonne 1918, Hook Mountain 1929, Block Island 1940, sold 1947 as Yankee, active
YFB 21 Maryland Steel Sparrows Point MD Florida Calistoga 1.840 298 1907 1941 Calistoga 1924, scrapped 1947
YFB 22 Shain Manufacturing Seattle WA Jewel Jewel 22 65 1942 1942 Sold 1947
YFB 23 Shain Manufacturing Seattle WA Solomons Sanibel 22 65 1942 1942 Sold 1947
YFB 24 Shain Manufacturing Seattle WA Treasure Treasure 22 65 1942 1942 Sold 1947
YFB 25 Cape May Shipbuilding Cape May NJ Captiva Captiva 22 65 1944 1942 Sold 1948
YFB 26 Cape May Shipbuilding Cape May NJ Falkner Falkner 22 65 1944 1942 Sold 1948
YFB 27 Cancelled
YFB 28 Adak Cancelled
YFB 29 Cancelled
YFB 30 Mathis Yachts Camden NJ Pilgrim II Pilgrim II 118 92 1926 1942 Returned 1947
YFB 31 General Ship East Boston MA Hudson Gould Island 569 401 1941 1942 Returned 1946, Chester 1965, scrapped 1979
YFB 32 South Portland SB South Portland ME Aucocisco Green Island 167 117 1897 1942 Returned 1945, struck 1946
YFB 33 Los Angeles SB Los Angeles CA Hayward Santa Rosa 1,653 225 1923 Acquisition cancelled, later YFB 61
YFB 34 Los Angeles SB Los Angeles CA San Leandro San Leandro 1,653 225 1923 Acquisition cancelled, later YFB 60
YFB 35 I. F. Cannon Fishing Creek MD Lord Baltimore Sequin 192 116 1932 1942 Struck 1946
YFB 36 Todd Dry Dock Brooklyn NY Staten 593 142 1931 1942 Sold 1947
YFB 37 Howards Shipyard Jeffersonville IN Josie/Manatee Dewees 229 137 1891 1942 Struck 1945
YFB 38 Cramps Shipbuilding Philadelphia PA Wilmington/Pinellas Seabrook 101 122 1882 1942 Returned to owner 1946
YFB 39 Seven Seas/Caladesi Caladesi 65 1938 1942 Struck 1946.
YFB 40 Pusey & Jones Wilmington DE Chelsea Quonset 1,028 1923 1942
YFB 41 Delaware River I & S Chester PA Riverside Lillian Anne 330 160 1895 1942 Returned 1943
YFB 42 Jacobson Shipyard Oyster Bay NY Gotham Asquith 569 285 1941 1942 Returned 1946, Delaware 1965, scrapped 1979
YFB 43 New London S & E Groton CT Elmer W. Jones Colington 125 1926 1942 Struck 1946
YFB 44 Maryland Steel Sparrows Point MD Robert E. Lee Royston 192 1912 1943 Returned 1943
YFB 45 Pearl Harbor NSY Honolulu HI Sheffield 290 145 1944 1943 Struck 1960
YFB 46 Union Iron Works San Francisco CA Treasure Island North 1,720 248 1911 1943 Struck 1946
YFB 47 Harlan & Hollingsworth Wilmington DE Goshen 205 1905 1943
YFB 48 Neafie & Levy Philadelphia PA John G. McCullough 1,372 200 1890 1943 Chautauqua 1905, Rutherford 1936, scrapped 1946
YFB 49 San Francisco NSY Hunters Point CA Metinic 87 25 1944 1944 Struck 1947
YFB 50 Martinolich SB Dockton WA Clatawa 85 1913 1944 Destroyed by fire 1958
YFB 51 John W. Sullivan Elizabethport NJ Jamaica 150 1925 1944
YFB 52 John W. Sullivan Elizabethport NJ Stuyvesant 150 1925 1944
YFB 53 Neafie & Levy Philadelphia PA Grampus Liberty 334 126 1907 1944 Boothbay 1917, Grampus 1920, Deepwater 1931, sold 1965 as Island Queen, Provincetown 1966, St. Thomas 1967,
YFB 54 Portland OR City of Seattle Magdalena 196 121 1888 1944 Sold 1947
YFB 55 Isherwood Glasgow, Scotland Delta King Delta King 285 1927 1944 YHB 6, struck 1946, hotel in Sacramento CA
YFB 56 Isherwood Glasgow, Scotland Delta Queen Delta Queen 285 1927 1944 YHB 7, struck 1946, hotel in Chattanooga TN
YFB 57 San Felipe 1945 Returned
YFB 58 Kyle & Purdy City Island NY Fordham Lacosta 85 1922 1945
YFB 59 Todd Shipyards Brooklyn NY Rockaway Arrowsic 151 1925 1945 Wrecked 1945
YFB 60 Los Angeles SB Los Angeles CA San Leandro San Leandro 1,653 225 1923 1945 Returned to owner 1945
YFB 61 Los Angeles SB Los Angeles CA Hayward Santa Rosa 1,653 225 1923 1945 Returned to owner 1945
YFB 62 Oakland CA Sierra Nevada 218 1913 1945
YFB 63
YFB 64
YFB 65 Pidgeon-Thomas Memphis TN LCT 611 180 115 1943 1945 Sunk as target 1971
YFB 66 Bison Shipbuilding N. Tonawanda NY LCT 639 180 115 1944 1945 Sunk as target 1971
YFB 67
YFB 68
YFB 69
YFB 70
YFB 71
YFB 72
YFB 73
YFB 74
YFB 75
YFB 76
YFB 77
YFB 78
YFB 79 San Felipe Acquisition cancelled
YFB 80
YFB 81
YFB 82 Bison Shipbuilding N. Tonawanda NY LCT 1040 180 115 1944 1958 To Paraguay 1970, abandoned 2011
YFB 83 John H. Mathis Camden NJ Delaware Valley Wa'a Hele Honua 500 162 1949 1959 Sold 2003
YFB 84
YFB 85
YFB 86 Bison Shipbuilding N. Tonawanda NY LCT 524 180 115 1943 1960 To Paraguay 1970, scrapped 2010
YFB 87 Western Boatbuilding Tacoma WA Moko Holo Hele 390 162 1970 1970 Sold 2004
YFB 88 General Ship East Boston MA LCU 1636 390 132 1968 Scrapped 1995
YFB 89 Marinette Marine Marinette WI LCU 1638 390 132 1969 Sunk as target 1997
YFB 90 Marinette Marine Marinette WI LCU 1639 390 132 1969 Sunk as target 1997
YFB 91 Marinette Marine Marinette WI LCU 1640 390 132 1969 Sunk as target 1993
YFB 92 Bender Shipbuilding Mobile AL Windward 200 136 1995 1995 Now R. W. Huntington
YFB 93 Bender Shipbuilding Mobile AL Leeward 200 136 1995 1995 Now William H. Allen
YFB 94 Avondale Shipyards New Orleans LA LCU 1504 180 115 1954 Sold 2004
YFB 95 Avondale Shipyards New Orleans LA LCU 1516 180 115 1954 Scrapped 1997
YFBs with out-of-sequence numbers
YFB 132 Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME 64 1891 194 To USC&GS 1928 as Echo, sold 1938
YFB 280 Herreshoff Mfg. Bristol RI Inca 100 1911 194
YFB 308 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA Dart 72 1900 194 To DoC 1930
YFB 529 Vidette 194
YFB 621 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA Castro 75 1904 194
YFB 663 Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME Kite Otter 194
YFB 681 Cavite NS Cavite PI Santa Rita 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 682 Cavite NS Cavite PI Rosal 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 683 Cavite NS Cavite PI Camia 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 684 Cavite NS Cavite PI Dapdap 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 685 Cavite NS Cavite PI Rivera 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 687 Cavite NS Cavite PI Magdalena 71 1907 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 688 Cavite NS Cavite PI Yacal 71 1932 194 Left in the Philippines 1942
YFB 1048 Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME Launch No. 1048 77 1919 194
YFB 1059 New York NSY Brooklyn NY Launch No. 1059 60 1911 194
YFB 1163 Saunders & Son Saunderstown RI Taposa Narragansett 250 120 1905 1918 Sold 1944, scuttled
YFB 1227 Robert Jacob City Island NY Patchogue 135 100 1912 1917 Sold 1922
YFB 2047 Bath Iron Works Bath ME Moosehead Porpoise 377 185 1911 1921 Sold 1931 as Mayflower, wrecked 1941
YFB 2079 Croton-on-Hudson NY Shady Side 85 1913
YFB 2494 Launch No. 2494
YFB 3268 Rockland ME Atlantic 188 115 1894 1918 Sold 1921
YFB 3274 Mary M 64 1904 1919
YFB 4753 Launch No. 4753

 

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