Shipbuilding History

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Ferry Boats and Launches

(YFB)

All these vessels were used for personnel movement within a harbor district.

Builder Location Name Navy Name LDT LOA Built YFB Notes
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-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
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
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-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-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-79 San Felipe
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-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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