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Harbor Tugs: Photo Gallery
World War I acquisitions, 1917-1918 (later YT 28-45)


These photographs were selected to show some typical tugs in this group. For more including views of tugs not shown here see the comprehensive NavSource Photo Archive.

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Notes: For larger tugs acquired at this time and retained see AT-53 thru AT-60 on the AT page in this section.

Advance
Advance (YT-28, ex SP-3057).
(Photo # NH 100589)
Barnett
Barnett (YT-29, as The Barnett, SP-1149).
(Photo: # NH 100104)
Bouker No. 2
Bouker No. 2 (YT-30, ex SP-1275).
(Photo # NH 100900)
Saco
Saco (YT-31, ex Alexander Brown, SP-2725). (Photo # NH 43696)
Catawba
Catawba (YT-32, as Howard Greene, ID-2200), photographed by her builder, the Baltimore DD & SB Co. To YTM-32
(Photo # NH 96307)
Muscotah ex Mendota ex Concord
Muscotah (YT-33, ex ID-773). Renamed from Mendota 30 January 1932 and from Concord 20 November 1920. Off the Washington D.C. Navy Yard 1932-34.
(Photo # NH 85991)
Dreadnaught
Dreadnaught (YT-34, ex ID-1951). She was acquired soon after being laid down by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco.
(Photo # NH 94484)
Nausett
Nausett (YT-35, ex Carl R. Gray, ID-2671), at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 5 June 1926. The large ship behind her is USS Mercy (AH-4).
(Photo # NH 45660)
Frances B. Hackett
Shenandoah (YT-36, as Frances B. Hackett (ID-1161, later USS Choptank).
(Photo: The Marine Review, August 1910, page 334)
Yuma
Yuma (YT-37, as Asher J. Hudson (ID-3104). (Photo # NH 95890)
Navigator
Navigator (YT-39, ex ID-2225) at Mare Island on 7 February 1920.
(Photo # NH 69859)
Penobscot
Penobscot (YT-42, ex ID-982) off the Brooklyn waterfront.
(Photo # NH 104605)
Pocomoke
Pocomoke (YT-43, ex SP-265), a Menhaden fishing boat used as a tug.
(Photo: NavSource 140804302)
Adirondack
Adirondack (YT-44, as Underwriter, ID-1390) (Photo # NH 102342)
James Woolley
James Woolley (YT-45) at the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N.H. on 22 September 1926.
(Photo # NavSource 140804502)


Near misses, 1919-1920

Notes: During World War I the Navy acquired but did not retain seven large tugs of ocean-going dimensions and well over 50 smaller tugs suitable primarily for harbor service. The seven large tugs, along with four large ones that were retained and six smaller ones, may be seen in the section on World War I temporary ocean-going tugs. Of the over 50 smaller tugs acquired but not retained, the five below were among the last that were deleted from the Navy before the YT designators were assigned in mid-1920.

Alice
Spartan (SP-336, 1917-1919). This 105.9' tug was built at Baltimore in 1912 and was returned to her owner on 20 September 1919. (Photo: NH # 102228)
Chickasaw
Charles Mann (SP-522, 1917-1920) at the Boston Navy Yard near USS Constitution. This 77' tug was built in 1903 at South Portland, Maine, and was ordered sold on 27 February 1920. (Photo: NH # 101975)
Nezinscot
Sadie Ross (SP-736, 1917-1920). This 60.5' tug was built at East Boston, Mass., in 1904, ordered appraised for sale on 23 June 1920, and sold on 6 August 1920.
(Photo: NH # 102170)
Seminole
Dorothy Cullen (SP-2183, 1918-1920). This 81.1' tug was built in 1893 at Boston and was ordered placed on the sale list on 3 October 1919. (Photo: NH # 101590)
Waban
Winthrop (ID-3297, 1918-1921), off the U.S. Naval Coal Depot, Melville Station, R.I. This 80.8' tug was built in 1883 and rebuilt in 1917. Acquired on 18 October 1918, she was ordered sold on 30 October 1919. Alida (YT-102) also served at Melville. (Photo: NH # 102572)