Special-Purpose Craft (YCV, YDG, YDT, YE, YFT, YH, YHB, YTT, YV)
The vessels in this table were used for a variety of specialized activities. If anyone can fill any of the gaps, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.
Most recent update: 9 January 2012.
| Type | # | Shipbuilder | Location | Ft. | Tons | Built | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Transportation Barges (YCV) | |||||||
| YCV | 1 | Later YC 1304 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 2 | Later YC 1305 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 3 | City Lumber | Bridgeport CT | 110 | 150 | 1943 | Lost 1945 |
| YCV | 4 | City Lumber | Bridgeport CT | 110 | 150 | 1943 | To MARAD 1947 |
| YCV | 5 | City Lumber | Bridgeport CT | 110 | 150 | 1943 | To MARAD 1947 |
| YCV | 6 | 200 | 480 | 1943 | Later YC 1093 1945 | ||
| YCV | 7 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1943 | |
| YCV | 8 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1944 | Struck 1995 |
| YCV | 9 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1944 | Scrapped 1982 |
| YCV | 10 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1944 | Active |
| YCV | 11 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1944 | Scrapped 2007 |
| YCV | 12 | Pearl Harbor NY | Honolulu HI | 200 | 480 | 1944 | |
| YCV | 13 | Cancelled | |||||
| YCV | 14 | Cancelled | |||||
| YCV | 15 | Bethlehem Steel | San Francisco CA | 200 | 480 | 1945 | To DoI 1998 |
| YCV | 16 | Bethlehem Steel | San Francisco CA | 200 | 480 | 1945 | Active |
| YCV | 17 | Bethlehem Steel | San Francisco CA | 200 | 480 | 1945 | |
| YCV | 18 | Bethlehem Steel | San Francisco CA | 200 | 480 | 1945 | Scrapped 1979 |
| YCV | 19 | Cancelled 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 20 | Cancelled 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 21 | Cancelled 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 22 | Cancelled 1945 | |||||
| YCV | 19 | Alabama Shipyard | Mobile AL | 200 | 480 | 1990 | Active |
| YCV | 20 | Alabama Shipyard | Mobile AL | 200 | 480 | 1990 | Active |
| YCV | 21 | Alabama Shipyard | Mobile AL | 200 | 480 | 1990 | Sold 2009 |
| YCV | 22 | Alabama Shipyard | Mobile AL | 200 | 480 | 1991 | Active |
| YCV | 23 | Alabama Shipyard | Mobile AL | 200 | 480 | 1991 | Active |
| Degaussing Vessels (YDG) | |||||||
| YDG | 1 | Davis, M. M. | Solomons MD | 127 | 271 | 1923 | Ex-Thomas C. McNeal, acquired 1942 as YP 404, sold 1945 |
| YDG | 2 | San Pedro BW | San Pedro CA | 95 | 1929 | Ex-Cipango, acquired 1942 as YP 504, sold 1945 | |
| YDG | 3 | Parke & Kibele | San Pedro CA | 113 | 1930 | Ex-Chicken of the Sea, acquired 1942 as YP 522, sold 1945 | |
| YDG | 4 | Stone, W. F. | Oakland CA | 166 | 318 | 1902 | Ex-Santa Monica, acquired 1942 as YP 528, lost 1943 |
| YDG | 5 | Wright, E. | Tuncurry NSW, AU | 153 | 489 | 1937 | Ex-Nambucca II, acquired 1943, burnt 1945 |
| YDG | 6 | Bellingham MR | Bellingham WA | 136 | 270 | 1943 | Ex-YMS 344, lost in typhoon 1945 |
| YDG | 7 | Bellingham MR | Bellingham WA | 136 | 270 | 1943 | Ex-YMS 480, sold 1947 |
| YDG | 8 | Albina E & MW | Portland OR | 184 | 640 | 1943 | Ex-PCE 876, later Lodestone (ADG 8), scrapped 1976 |
| YDG | 9 | Albina E & MW | Portland OR | 184 | 640 | 1943 | Ex-PCE 879, later Magnet (ADG 9), sunk as target 1976 |
| YDG | 10 | Albina E & MW | Portland OR | 184 | 640 | 1943 | Ex-PCE 882, later Deperm (ADG 10), sunk as target 1982 |
| YDG | 11 | Willamette I & S | Portland OR | 184 | 640 | 1945 | Ex-PCE 919/AM 359, later Ampere (ADG 11), sold 1962 |
| Diving Tenders (YDT) | |||||||
| YDT | 1 | W. A. Robinson | Ipswich MA | 97 | 141 | 1943 | |
| YDT | 2 | W. A. Robinson | Ipswich MA | 97 | 159 | 1942 | Ex-Fortitude (AMC 81) |
| YDT | 3 | W. A. Robinson | Ipswich MA | 97 | 159 | 1942 | Ex-Energy (AMC 78) |
| YDT | 4 | W. A. Robinson | Ipswich MA | 97 | 159 | 1942 | Ex-Exultant (AMC 79), sunk as target 1973 |
| YDT | 5 | W. A. Robinson | Ipswich MA | 97 | 159 | 1942 | Ex-Fearless (AMC 80), sunk as target 1973 |
| YDT | 6 | Morse Shipyards | Thomaston ME | 93 | 159 | 1936 | Ex-Blue Jay, Chas. S. Ashley, acquired 1940 as AMC 23, returned to owner 1946 |
| YDT | 7 | Morse Shipyards | Thomaston ME | 93 | 159 | 1936 | Ex-Canary, John J. Murley, acquired 1940 as AMC 25, to MARAD 1948 |
| YDT | 8 | 64 | 1927 | Ex-Washington, acquired 1940, to MARAD 1947 | |||
| YDT | 9 | ||||||
| YDT | 10 | Ex-YFNG 1, struck 1983 | |||||
| YDT | 11 | Everett Pacific | Everett WA | 261 | 700 | 1945 | Ex-YFN 723, now YR 94 |
| YDT | 12 | Cramp Shipbuilding | Philadelphia PA | 261 | 700 | 1945 | Ex-YFN 736, now YRST 2 |
| YDT | 13 | ||||||
| YDT | 14 | Erie Concrete | Erie PA | 133 | 300 | 1942 | Ex-YF 294, named Phoebus, sold 1999 |
| YDT | 15 | Erie Concrete | Erie PA | 133 | 300 | 1943 | Ex-YF 336, sold 1999 |
| YDT | 16 | Ex-YFN 1071, YFNB 43, sold 1996 | |||||
| YDT | 17 | Swiftships | Morgan City LA | 132 | 275 | 1999 | Named Neptune, active |
| YDT | 18 | Swiftships | Morgan City LA | 132 | 275 | 1999 | Named Poseidon, active |
| Ammunition Barges (YE) | |||||||
| YE | 1 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 61 | 1899 | ||
| YE | 2 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 61 | 1899 | ||
| YE | 3 | Puget Sound NSY | Bremerton WA | 61 | 1901 | ||
| YE | 4 | Puget Sound NSY | Bremerton WA | 61 | 1901 | ||
| YE | 5 | ||||||
| YE | 6 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 100 | 1902 | ||
| YE | 7 | Cavite NS | Cavite PI | 90 | 1902 | ||
| YE | 8 | Cavite NS | Cavite PI | 110 | 1907 | ||
| YE | 9 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 100 | 1904 | ||
| YE | 10 | Philadelphia NSY | Philadelphia PA | 86 | 1904 | ||
| YE | 11 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 122 | 1905 | ||
| YE | 12 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 100 | 1907 | ||
| YE | 13 | Fore River Shipbuilding | Quincy MA | 128 | 1909 | ||
| YE | 14 | Puget Sound NSY | Bremerton WA | 75 | 1909 | Ex-YA 18 | |
| YE | 15 | Puget Sound NSY | Bremerton WA | 90 | 1910 | ||
| YE | 16 | Puget Sound NSY | Bremerton WA | 90 | 1910 | ||
| YE | 17 | Boston NSY | Charlestown MA | 80 | 1910 | Sold 1935 | |
| YE | 18 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 86 | 1901 | ||
| YE | 19 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 86 | 1903 | ||
| YE | 20 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 86 | 1900 | ||
| YE | 21 | New York NSY | Brooklyn NY | 90 | 1901 | ||
| YE | 22 | 54 | |||||
| YE | 23 | Boston NSY | Charlestown MA | 107 | 1911 | Discarded 1934 | |
| YE | 24 | ||||||
| YE | 25 | Norfolk NSY | Portsmouth VA | 110 | 1913 | Ex-YC 208 | |
| YE | 26 | Norfolk NSY | Portsmouth VA | 110 | 1917 | Ex-YC 135 | |
| YE | 27 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 80 | 1917 | Ex-YC 70 | |
| YE | 28 | 108 | 882 | Ex-Weehawken, acquired 1918, sold 1931 | |||
| YE | 29 | 108 | 1,933 | 1909 | Ex-Lawrence M. Sullivan, acquired 1918, sold 1930 | ||
| YE | 30 | 112 | 3,190 | 1918 | Ex-Hercules, acquired 1918, sold 1923 | ||
| YE | 31 | 110 | 1919 | Ex YC 534 | |||
| YE | 32 | Chicago Bridge | Chicago IL | 110 | 1921 | Ex YC 484 | |
| YE | 33 | Chicago Bridge | Chicago IL | 110 | 1921 | Ex YC 485 | |
| YE | 34 | Philadelphia NSY | Philadelphia PA | 110 | 1921 | Ex YC 292 | |
| YE | 35 | Seattle Const. | Seattle WA | 110 | 1921 | Ex YC 280 | |
| YE | 36 | Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | 110 | 1920 | Ex YC 468 | |
| YE | 37 | Leonard Construction | Chicago IL | 110 | 1920 | Ex YC 469 | |
| Torpedo Transportation Barges (YFT) | |||||||
| YFT | 1 | Dekom Shipbuilding | Brooklyn NY | 110 | 162 | 1942 | Ex-YC 753 |
| YFT | 2 | Dravo Corp. | Wilmington DE | 110 | 162 | 1942 | Ex-YC 709 |
| YFT | 3 | Donovan Contracting | Shelburne VT | 80 | 74 | 1942 | |
| YFT | 4 | Donovan Contracting | Shelburne VT | 80 | 74 | 1942 | |
| YFT | 5 | Donovan Contracting | Shelburne VT | 80 | 74 | 1942 | |
| YFT | 6 | 110 | 138 | 1942 | Ex-YF 462, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| Ambulance Boats (YH) | |||||||
| YH | 1 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 65 | 54 | 1919 | Ex-YT 97 |
| YH | 2 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 65 | 54 | 1919 | Ex-YT 100 |
| YH | 3 | Mare Island NSY | Vallejo CA | 65 | 54 | 1919 | Ex-YT 101 |
| YH | 4 | Stephens Bros. | Stockton CA | 41 | 24 | 1939 | Ex-Sea Breeze, acquired 1941, sold 1947, still active as Sea Breeze |
| YH | 5 | 28 | Small boat 1942 | ||||
| House Boats (YHB) | |||||||
| YHB | 1 | Staten Island SB | Port Richmond NY | 127 | 600 | 1912 | Ex-YTT 1, transferred 1946 |
| YHB | 2 | San Francisco CA | 220 | 1,142 | 1910 | Ex-Capital City, Port of Stockton, acquired 1941, to MARAD 1947 | |
| YHB | 3 | 100 | 120 | 1928 | Acquired 1941, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 4 | 160 | 88 | 1908 | Ex-Washington, acquired 1941, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 5 | Supple | Portland OR | 145 | 400 | 1916 | Ex-Kitsap II, City of Bellingham, Quilcene, acquired 1941, sold 1947 |
| YHB | 6 | Isherwood | Glasgow, Scotland | 285 | 1927 | Ex-Delta King, acquired 1940, YFB 55, sold 1947 | |
| YHB | 7 | Isherwood | Glasgow, Scotland | 285 | 1927 | Ex-Delta Queen, acquired 1940, YFB 56, sold 1947 | |
| YHB | 8 | Seattle Const. & DD | Seattle WA | 189 | 99 | 1912 | Ex-Sol Duc, acquired 1941, scrapped 1947 |
| YHB | 9 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 120 | 150 | 1930 | Ex-Truant, acquired 1942, to MARAD 1945 |
| YHB | 10 | Long Beach SB | Long Beach CA | 193 | 851 | 1920 | Ex-Domingo Nazabal, acquired 1942, destroyed 1945 |
| YHB | 11 | 219 | 150 | 1912 | Ex-Fort Sutter, acquired 1942, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 12 | Seattle Const. & DD | Seattle WA | 134 | 150 | 1913 | Ex-Comanche, acquired 1942, scrapped 1947 |
| YHB | 13 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 127 | 150 | 1928 | Ex-Niagara, acquired 1942, to MARAD 1946 |
| YHB | 14 | 101 | 150 | 1925 | Acquired 1942, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 15 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 98 | 165 | 1931 | Ex-Minoco, Idyll, acquired 1942, YAG 20 1942, sold 1945 |
| YHB | 16 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 106 | 134 | 1929 | Ex-Viator, acquired 1942, to MARAD 1946 |
| YHB | 17 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 101 | 157 | 1930 | Ex-Memory, West Wind, Lela, acquired 1942, YAG 21 1942, wrecked 1945 |
| YHB | 18 | Stockton CA | 242 | 250 | 1898 | Ex-Crockett, acquired 1942, to MARAD 1947 | |
| YHB | 19 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 106 | 150 | 1916 | Ex-Leonie, acquired 1943, to MARAD 1947 |
| YHB | 20 | J. W. Dickie | Alameda CA | 228 | 150 | 1903 | Ex-Cazadero, acquired 1943, destroyed 1948 |
| YHB | 21 | Union Iron Works | San Francisco CA | 224 | 150 | 1902 | Ex-Tamalpais, acquired 1943, scrapped 1947 |
| YHB | 22 | 80 | 75 | 1920 | Acquired 1943, to MARAD 1945 | ||
| YHB | 23 | Mathis Yachts | Camden NJ | 101 | 103 | 1929 | Ex-Dream Girl, Memory, Big Pebble, CGB-23, acquired 1943, sold 1946 |
| YHB | 24 | Maryland Steel | Sparrows Point MD | 307 | 2.000 | 1893 | Ex-Alabama, City of Victoria, acquired 1943, scrapped 1948 |
| YHB | 25 | New York Ship | Camden NJ | 274 | 1,400 | 1913 | Ex-Alameda, acquired 1944, scrapped 1947 |
| YHB | 26 | 151 | 300 | 1909 | Ex-Annie Comings, acquired 1944, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 27 | 110 | 200 | Ex-K. T. No. 9, acquired 1944, to MARAD 1947 | |||
| YHB | 28 | 110 | 200 | 1923 | Ex-Pacific U. 11, acquired 1944, to MARAD 1947 | ||
| YHB | 29 | Sun Shipbuilding | Chester PA | 125 | 300 | 1944 | Ex-YCF 62 |
| YHB | 30 | Sun Shipbuilding | Chester PA | 125 | 300 | 1944 | Ex-YCF 63 |
| YHB | 31 | Sun Shipbuilding | Chester PA | 125 | 300 | 1944 | Ex-YCF 64 |
| YHB | 32 | Sun Shipbuilding | Chester PA | 125 | 300 | 1944 | Ex-YCF 65 |
| YHB | 33 | Sun Shipbuilding | Chester PA | 125 | 300 | 1944 | Ex-YCF 72 |
| YHB | 34 | 110 | 138 | 1919 | Ex-YC 393 | ||
| YHB | 35 | 110 | 138 | 1943 | Ex-YFN 514 | ||
| YHB | 36 | 110 | 170 | 1912 | Ex-YFN 674, ex-YC 264, | ||
| Torpedo Trials Craft (YTT) | |||||||
| YTT | 1 | Staten Island SB | Port Richmond NY | 127 | 600 | 1912 | Later YHB 1 |
| YTT | 2 | Boston NSY | Charlestown MA | 134 | 600 | 1916 | Sold 1948 |
| YTT | 3 | George Lawley | Neponset MA | 134 | 600 | 1918 | Later YR 42 1941, |
| YTT | 4 | George Lawley | Neponset MA | 134 | 600 | 1918 | Sold 1948 |
| YTT | 5 | Portsmouth NSY | Kittery ME | 165 | 430 | 1942 | |
| YTT | 6 | Portsmouth NSY | Kittery ME | 165 | 430 | 1943 | |
| YTT | 7 | Portsmouth NSY | Kittery ME | 165 | 430 | 1943 | |
| YTT | 8 | 103 | 100 | 1902 | Ex-YCF 1 | ||
| YTT | 9 | McDermott | Morgan City LA | 186 | 1,200 | 1991 | Cape Flattery, sold 2000 as research vessel |
| YTT | 10 | McDermott | Morgan City LA | 186 | 1,200 | 1991 | Battle Point, active |
| YTT | 11 | McDermott | Morgan City LA | 186 | 1,200 | 1992 | Discovery Bay, active |
| YTT | 12 | McDermott | Morgan City LA | 186 | 1,200 | 1992 | Agate Pass, to NOAA 2000 as Nancy Foster (R 352) |
| Seaplane Barges (YV) | |||||||
| YV | 1 | ||||||
| YV | 2 | ||||||
| YV | 3 | ||||||
| YV | 4-19 | ||||||
| YV | 20 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 21 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 23 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 24 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 25 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 26 | Herreshoff Mfg. | Bristol RI | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 131 | |
| YV | 27 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 28 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 29 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 30 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 31 | Jacob, Robert | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 133 | |
| YV | 32 | Jacob, Robert | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 33 | Jacob, Robert | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 34 | Jacob, Robert | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 135 | |
| YV | 35-47 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 48 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 49 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 50 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 51 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 52 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 137 | |
| YV | 53 | Wood, B. F. | City Island NY | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 138 | |
| YV | 54 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 55 | 58 | |||||
| YV | 56 | Luders Marine | Stamford CT | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 57 | Luders Marine | Stamford CT | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 58 | Luders Marine | Stamford CT | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 59 | Luders Marine | Stamford CT | 58 | 1918 | ||
| YV | 60 | Luders Marine | Stamford CT | 58 | 1918 | Later YF 139 | |