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Spray (YFB-1059)
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 Spray (Launch No. 1059) (1910 - 1920)

  • Built as a wooden-hulled launch by New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY
  • Completed as Launch No. 1059, 1911
  • Named Spray, date unknown
  • Assigned to New York Navy Yard as Yard Commandant's launch
  • Designated Yard Ferryboat (YFB-1059), 17 July 1920
  • Laid up, 1922
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 07 October 1932
  • Sold to William F. Toomey, New York, NY, for $300, December 1932
  • Registered as passenger boat Spray (ON 232107), 1933
  • FInal disposition, out of documentation, 1940
    Specifications:
    Displacement 21 gross tons
    Length 54' 4" waterline; 60' 0" overall
    Beam 10' 3"
    Draft 5' 3"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion gas, 200hp
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    YFB-1059
    1435105901    		 623k Spray off the New York Navy Yard, with the Williamsburg Bridge in the background, 09 June 1914.
    Navy Bureau of Yard & Dock photo, now in National Archives, identifier 6038094    		 Dave Wright
    YFB-1059
    1435105902    		 977k Newspaper article about sale of Spray into civilian life.
    Article from Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 26 January 1933.    		 Dave Wright
    There is no history record for Spray (YFB-1059) available at NavSource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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