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YH-1
ex
 Ambulance Boat No. 1 (1919 - 1920)

District Harbor Tug:
  • Built by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA
  • Laid down as Motor Tug #97, date unknown
  • Launched, 24 July 1919
  • Converted to a Yard Ambulance Boat before completion
  • Placed in service at Mare Island as Ambulance Boat No. 1, 18 August 1919
  • Designated YH-1, 17 July 1920
  • Assigned to Twelfth Naval District, 1919-1938
  • Used to evacuate sick and injured bluejackets from San Francisco to Goat (now Yerba Buena) Island
  • Placed out of service, date unknown
  • Struck from the Naval Register, December 1938
  • Final Disposition, sold March 1939
    Specifications:
    Displacement 54 tons
    Length 65' 0"
    Beam 16' 2"
    Draft 6' 2"
    Speed 11.5 knots
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Capacity 24 stretcher and 12 ambulatory patients
    Propulsion
    one Union 4 cylinder, 4 cycle gasoline engine, 150shp
    single 12" X 15" propeller
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    YH-1 68k Yard Ambulance Boat No.1 just before her launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, CA, 24 July 1919. Preparing to christen the vessel is the daughter of CDR John L. Neilson, USN (Medical Corps). CDR Neilson is also on the platform.
    US Navy photo # NH 41799 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center, collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps)    		 US Naval History and Heritage Command
    YH-1 73k Yard Ambulance Boat No.1 launching at Mare Island Navy Yard, 24 July 1919. Note that much of her ambulance boat deckhouse is already in place. This craft was converted before or during the early stages of construction from Motor Tug No. 97.
    US Navy photo # NH 41602 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center, collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps)    		 US Naval Historical Center
    YH-1 65k Yard Ambulance Boat No.1 off Mare Island Navy Yard, probably soon after 18 August 1919, when she entered service. This craft was converted before or during the early stages of construction from Motor Tug No. 97
    US Navy photo # NH 41600 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center, collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps)    		 Robert Hurst
    YH-1 66k Crew members of Yard Ambulance Boat No.1 lowering a stretcher containing a patient through the starboard side of the booby hatch aft of the pilot house at Mare Island Navy Yard, 31 October 1919. Note the stretchers already suspended under the port side of the hatch.
    US Navy photo # NH 41601 from the collections of the Naval Historical Center, collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps)    		 US Naval Historical Center
    California 67k Yard Ambulance Boat No.1 stands by as tugs work to pull California (Battleship # 44) off the mud on the Vallejo side of the Mare Island channel after her launching at Navy Yard Mare Island, 20 November 1919. Darryl Baker
    There is no DANFS history available for YH-1 at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    No Information Available
    Additional Resources and Web Sites of Interest
    National Association of Fleet Tug Sailors
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