Other Self-Propelled District Craft, 1922-1945: Photo Gallery
Part 3: Miscellaneous Craft

YDT-1 at Norfolk on 12 June 1961 from a sale catalog. Ordered on 21 April 1942, her design was based on AMC 36-39 and 78-81, all of which her builder had completed in March 1942.
(Photo: NHHC-SH)

YDT-1 at Norfolk on 12 June 1961 from a sale catalog. The larger craft that she is alongside may be YR-23.
(Photo: NHHC-SH)

San Felipe (YFB-12) off the Cavite Navy Yard, Luzon, Philippines, circa 1920s or 1930s. She was built at Hong Kong in 1907 and taken over from the Army Engineer Corps in 1922.
(Photo: NH 41609)

Aquidneck (later YFB-14) underway in Narragansett Bay, circa 1937, the year of her completion.
(Photo: NavSource 1435001402/NARA 80-G-457679)

Nihoa (YFB-17). Completed at Pearl Harbor on 7 November 1941.
(Photo: NavSource 1435001703)

Captiva (YFB-25) shortly after completion in 1944. Photos received by Bureau of Ships from Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ, with letter of 17 May 1944.
(Photo: NavSource 1435002501. National Archives photos 19-N-64600, 64601 and 64599)

Sheffield (YFB-45). Built at Pearl Harbor 1944, provided ferry service between Halawa and Ford Island. She was stricken in October 1960. The photo indicates that she was a near copy of Nihoa (YFB-17).
(Photo: NavSource 1435001703) Photo from The Honolulu Advertiser, 18 April 1958.

YFB-47, ex merchant Goshen, built in 1904 and purchased in 1943. Shown moored, probably at Pensacola, circa 1945.
(Photo: NavSource 1435004702)

YFB-48 in a ferry slip, probably at Pensacola, FL, circa 1945. Ted Stone photo.
(Photo: NavSource 1435004802)

YFB-51, formerly the New York City ferry Jamaica ex Joseph J. O'Brien, built in 1925.
(Photo: NavSource 1435005101)

YFB-55, ex YHB-6 ex merchant Delta King. Built in the San Francisco area in 1927. Shown in Navy ferry service, location unknown.
(Photo: NavSource 14340609)

YH-4 circa mid-1943. PC-570 is moored in the background.
(Photo: NH 100123)

Sea Breeze, ex YH-4, moored in her slip at Sausalito, CA. in August 2010.
(Photo: NavSource 14300402, posted by Keith Mitchell and edited)

YHB-2 at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 21 July 1944. This is a detail from a photo of the French armed merchant cruiser Cap des Palmes completing a refit.
(Photo: NHHC L-file)

YHB-9. Built 1930 as yacht Truant and probably shown here upon completion. Served as flagship for Commander, Amphibious Forces Atlantic Fleet, 1942 - 1944.
(Photo: NavSource 14340901)

H. J. Corcoran shown as completed in 1898, long before she was acquired by the Navy as YHB-18 in November 1942.
(Photo: NavSource 14341801)

YHB-21 from the background of a view of USS PCE-878 during her conversion to USS Buttress (ACM 4) at Mare Island on 25 April 1944.
(Photo: 6n)

YSD-9.
(Photo: NavSource 14580901)

YSD-21.
(Photo: 2g)

YSD-23.
(Photo: NavSource 14582301)

YSD-23.
(Photo: NavSource 14582301)

YSD-30.
(Photo: 2h)

YSD-30.
(Photo: 2h)

YSD-31.
(Photo: 2sh)

YSD-44 underway.
(Photo: 2h)

YSD-51 building showing stern structure.
(Photo: NavSource 14585101)

YSD-74 at the Arizona Memorial. She is probably no longer self-propelled.
(Photo: NavSource 14587403)