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Water Tankers and Barges

(YW and YWN)

Few of the early YWs were self-propelled: the use of YWN for barges did not get started until WWII and the earlier vessels retained their YW designation. As a result, it is now difficult to tell which vessels were tankers and which were barges.

Builder Location LOA Tons Built Notes
YW-1 1891 ex-S.O. Co. No. 55, acquired 1898, sunk off Guantanamo Bay 1917
YW-2 New York NY 170 1895 ex-S.O. Co. No. 75, acquired 1898, YO-10, YR-19, sold 1929, scrapped 1948
YW-3
YW-4 Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport NJ 144 200 1898 sold 1920
YW-5 Crescent Shipyard Elizabethport NJ 144 200 1898 sold 1943
YW-6 New York NSY Brooklyn NY 40 1898
YW-7
YW-8
YW-9 Port Royal SC 82 1898
YW-10 Puget Sound NSY Bremerton WA 142 200 1905 disposed-of 1948
YW-11 New York NSY Brooklyn NY 92 1904
YW-12 Norfolk NSY Portsmouth VA 120 200 1905 disposed-of 1948
YW-13 Pensacola NSY Pensacola FL 92 1904
YW-14 Pusey & Jones Wilmington DE 80 1905
YW-15 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 91 1905
YW-16 Pearl Harbor NSY Honolulu HI 120 200 1906 may have been built at MINSY, destroyed 1946
YW-17 Portsmouth NSY Kittery ME 154 1908
YW-18 New York NSY Brooklyn NY 92 1907
YW-19 Cavite NSY Cavite, Philippines 90 185 1907 struck 1942
YW-20 New York NSY Brooklyn NY 92 1907
YW-21 Norfolk NSY Portsmouth VA 50 1899
YW-22 New York NSY Brooklyn NY 112 200 1910 disposed-of 1948
YW-23 Puget Sound NSY Bremerton WA 161 225 1915 disposed-of 1948
YW-24 Olongapo NS Olongapa PI 70 1906 scrapped before 1921
YW-25 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 120 200 1915 disposed-of 1948
YW-26 Guam 45 1917
YW-27 2,801 ex-Lighter 23, acquired 1918, to US Army 1920
YW-28 New Orleans NS New Orleans LA 67 1918
YW-29 3.754 ex-Lilian Russell, acquired 1918
YW-30 William Simons Renfrew, Scotland 210 560 1883 ex-Renfrew, acquired 1918 as Rin Tin Tin (YF-160), sold 1932
YW-31 1919 ex-Ninette, acquired 1919, wrecked and scrapped 1921
YW-32 1919 ex-Water Lighter No. 1
YW-33 110 1919 ex-Coal Barge No. 565
YW-34 Cape May NJ 40 1919 fire barge
YW-35
YW-36
YW-37
YW-38
YW-39
YW-40
YW-41
YW-42
YW-43
YW-44
YW-45 110 1919 ex-Coal Barge No. 598
YW-46
YW-47 110 1919 ex-Coal Barge No. 186
YW-48
YW-49
YW-50 55 60 1923 surrendered at Cavite 1942
YW-51
YW-52
YW-53 Norfolk NSY Portsmouth VA 111 200 1933 disposed-of 1946
YW-54 111 200 1933 surrendered at Cavite 1942
YW-55 55 60 1931 ex-YF-222, ex-YC-275, surrendered at Cavite 1942
YW-56 Bethlehem Steel Quincy MA 314 1,215 1919 ex-DD-259, IX-98, scrapped 1947
YW-57 Bethlehem Steel Quincy MA 314 1,154 1919 ex-DD-163, IX-44, scuttled 1941
YW-58 110 115 1941 surrendered at Cavite 1942
YW-59 Norfolk NSY Portsmouth VA 110 712 1941 ex-YOG-32, scrapped 1975
YWN-60 Eureka Shipbuilding Eureka CA 165 220 1943 later YSR-46, then YOS-33
YWN-61 Eureka Shipbuilding Eureka CA 165 220 1943
YWN-62 Levingston Shipbuilding Orange TX 174 300 1943 later Barge 4
YWN-63 Levingston Shipbuilding Orange TX 174 300 1943 later 508 Port of Portland
YWN-64 Levingston Shipbuilding Orange TX 174 300 1943
YWN-65 Levingston Shipbuilding Orange TX 174 300 1943
YWN-66 Levingston Shipbuilding Orange TX 174 300 1943 sunk as target 1976
YWN-67 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1943 to DOI 1975
YWN-68 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1943
YWN-69 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1943 lost 1946
YWN-70 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1943 later YOS-37, sold 1999
YWN-71 Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh PA 165 220 1943 sold 1999
YWN-72 Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh PA 165 220 1943
YWN-73 Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh PA 165 220 1943 later YO-235
YWN-74 Dravo Corp. Pittsburgh PA 165 220 1943
YWN-75 Eureka SB Eureka CA 165 220 1943
YWN-76 Eureka SB Eureka CA 165 220 1943
YWN-77 Eureka SB Eureka CA 165 220 1943
YWN-78 Eureka SB Eureka CA 165 220 1943 sold 2008
YWN-79 Nelson Boiler & Tank Tacoma WA 165 220 1944 later YOS-2006
YWN-80 Nelson Boiler & Tank Tacoma WA 165 220 1944 lost 1946
YWN-81 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1944
YWN-82 American Pipe Los Angeles CA 165 220 1944
YWN-83 Mathis Camden NJ 174 440 1944 sunk as target 1989
YWN-84 Mathis Camden NJ 174 440 1944 scrapped 1976
YW-85 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944 scrapped 1975
YW-86 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944 sunk as target 2001
YW-87 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944
YW-88 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944
YW-89 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944 sunk as target 1976
YW-90 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1944 scrapped 1975
YW-91 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1944
YW-92 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1944 to Italy 1948 as Adige, struck 1989
YW-93 Western Pipe & Steel San Pedro CA 174 440 1944
YW-94 Western Pipe & Steel San Pedro CA 174 440 1944
YW-95 Albina Engine & Machine Portland OR 174 440 1944 to Italy 1948 as Flegetonte, scrapped 1974
YW-96 American Electric Welding Baltimore MD 1942 ex-Franklin R
YW-97 85 ex-PC-64, sold 1943
YW-98 George S. Lawley & Sons Neponset MA 174 440 1945 struck 1991
YW-99 George S. Lawley & Sons Neponset MA 174 440 1945 to Italy 1948 as Tanaro, struck 1986
YW-100 George S. Lawley & Sons Neponset MA 174 440 1945
YW-101 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945 sunk as target 1988
YW-102 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945
YW-103 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945 to the Philippines 1975
YW-104 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-105 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-106 Mare Island NSY Vallejo CA 174 440 1945 sold 1974 as Petrostar X, Khaleej 29 (Saudi Arabia)
YW-107 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-108 Zenith Dredge Duluth MN 174 440 1945 sold 2006 to a Mexican company
YW-110 200 600 1925 later YOG-54
YW-111 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 to the Philippines 1975
YW-112 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-113 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 sunk as target 1990
YW-114 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-115 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 sunk as target 1975
YW-116 Marine Iron Duluth MN 174 440 1945 sold 1974 as Nur (UAE)
YW-117 Grebe, Henry C. Chicago IL 174 440 1945 sold 1975 as Kambiz (Iran), Noah IV
YW-118 Grebe, Henry C. Chicago IL 174 440 1945 scrapped 1974
YW-119 Grebe, Henry C. Chicago IL 174 440 1945 scrapped 1982
YW-120 Jeffboat Jeffersonville IN 174 440 1942 ex-PC-624, to France 1944
YW-121 Dravo Corp. Wilmington DE 120 175
YW-122 Grebe, Henry C. Chicago IL 174 440 1945 to Peru 1980
YW-123 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 scrapped 1990
YW-124 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 later YOG-105, then YO-264, struck 1985
YW-125 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 to the Philippines 1975 as BRP Lake Lanao (Y-42)
YW-126 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 sunk as target 2001
YW-127 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 reefed off NJ 1998
YW-128 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 to Peru 1980
YW-129 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 sunk as target 1975
YW-130 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 to the Philippines 1975
YW-131 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 to Ecuador 1977 as Atahualpa
YW-132 Leathem D. Smith SB Sturgeon Bay WI 174 440 1945 sold 1974 as Riaz (UAE)
YWN-145 100 120
YWN-146 1942
YWN-147 86 70 1948 ex-BG-3640, sold 2002
YWN-148
YWN-149
YWN-150
YWN-151
YWN-152
YWN-153
YWN-154
YWN-155
YWN-156 Russell Eng. Works 120 175 1952 ex-BG-6089, struck 2007
YW-157 sunk as target 1976

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