Ferry Boats and Launches
(YFB)
Most recent update: August 6, 2015.
All these vessels were used for personnel movement within a harbor district.
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 | ||||||||