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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YTL-482
ex
YMT-20 (1942 - 1944)
Leslie (YFB-7) (1902 - 1930)

International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Xray - Delta NFXD

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal
Bottom Row - American Defense Service Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Built at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA

Built at a cost of $39,343.49

Launched, 01 December 1902

Placed in service as wooden-hull fireboat Leslie at Mare Island, 09 May 1903

Designated Yard Ferryboat (YFB-7), 17 July 1920

Placed out of service in 1930

Struck from the Naval Register in 1930

Sold to a Pittsburgh, CA. shipyard for conversion to commercial service, 30 October 1930

Registered to Delta Dredging Co., San Francisco, CA, as tug Deldreco (ON 234639)

Purchased by Basalt Rock Co., Napa, CA, rebuilt and renamed Basalt No. 1, 1938

Reacquired by the Navy, 07 March 1942

Placed in service as Yard Motor Tug YMT-20, 1942

Redesignated District Harbor Tug, Small YTL-482, 15 May 1944

Assigned to Net & Boom Defenses, San Francisco Bay, 1942 - 1945

Placed out of service, date unknown

transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal, 10 March 1947

Sold to Alf Jorgenson of Vancouver, BC, for $5,000, 1947

An additional $25,000 was invested in rebuilding her before relaunching as Jorgie (C178829), 03 April 1947

Renamed Ocean Comet, 1964

Renamed Mt. Comet, 1966

Sunk after becoming loose from her moorings at Vancouver, September 1997

Final disposition, remains hauled ashore and burned

Specifications - Ships Data 1914:
Displacement unknown
Length 75'
Beam 18'
Draft 2' 7"
Speed 9.37 knots
Complement unknown
Armament none
Propulsion steam, replaced by Diesel in 1930

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
Leslie (YFB-7)
	96k	*Leslie* underway off Navy Yard Mare Island in August 1903 shortly after being placed in service as a fire and pumping boat . Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker
	74k	*Leslie* underway off Navy Yard Mare Island, 02 September 1903 as a yard fire tug. Navy Yard Mare Island photo 208-Dept. P.W: U.Navy Yard M.I. Cal. Fire Tug.	Darryl Baker
1435000707	102k	*Leslie* underway, circa 1917-1918. Note her name and duty are clearly marked on the bow.	Dave Wright
	94k	*Leslie* underway in the lower right corner of the photo of the new oiler Cuyama (Oiler #3) returning to Navy Yard Mare Island, 21 March 1917 after sea trials. Mare Island Navy Yard photo # 3086-3-17, 3/21/17.	Darryl Baker
	111k	Leslie (YFB-7) at the Mare Island ferry float in 1921. California (BB-44) is the battleship in the background at her outfitting berth. *YD-33* is alongside *California* and several of the yard 65 foot *YMT* motor tugs are to the right. Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker
	180k	Tug operations and dispatch area at Mare Island Navy Yard with the main yard building ways in the background. Tugs Navigator (YT-39) [twin stacks] is inboard of Lively (YT-14) and to the right of these two tugs is the *USS Vigilant* (YT-25)*. Yard ferries Leslie* (YFB-7) and Dart (YFB-308) are to the right. The Tug Masters’ office is the house on the legs of the building ways overhead crane. The scaffolding on the building ways behind and below this office is the scaffolding for construction of the Montana (BB-51). The book A Long Line of Ships states that construction of the Montana was cancelled February 8, 1922 and it took another year to complete the scrapping of the ship. Based on this information this photo was probably taken from early 1922 to the middle of 1923. Photo from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.	Darryl Baker
YTL-482
	73k	Broadside view of YTL-482 at Navy Yard Mare Island, 09 November 1945. Ships in the background (left to right): *USS Nereus* (AS 17), USS Hunter Liggett (APA 14)*, SS Exira, USS Kadashan Bay* (CVE 76)*, SS Searay, SS Cape Mares. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 7009-45*	Darryl Baker
Commercial Service
	450k	*Basalt No. 1* underway on her maiden trip on the Napa River, 05 May 1938. Photo from The Napa Valley Register, 06 May 1938.	Dave Wright
	118k	*Mt. Comet* underway at Vancouver, BC, 1962. Photo donated to Mare Island Naval Shipyard by last owner.	Darryl Baker
	75k	*Mt. Comet* in use as a boathouse at Vancouver, BC, 1983. Photo donated to Mare Island Naval Shipyard by last owner.	Darryl Baker