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Shady Side (YFB-2079)
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 Shady Side (SP-2079) (1918 - 1920)

  • Built by Osborn Boat Works, Croton-on-Hudson, NY
  • Completed as passenger steamer Shady Side (ON 211757), 1913
  • Purchased by Navy and designated SP-2079, 19 February 1918
  • Designated Yard Ferryboat (YFB-2079), 17 July 1920
  • Assigned as ferry between Naval Academy, Annapolis and the Naval Engineering Experiment Station (now Severn River Naval Complex)
  • Foundered after developing leaks in storm, 16 March 1925
  • Raised next day, declared unfit for further service
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 09 May 1925
  • Sold to William Mattson, Baltimore, MD, 24 September 1925
  • Rebuilt, dieselized and sold to Edenton Mackeys Ferry Co., Edenton, NC, name retained, 1926
  • Final disposition, burned at Fairfield, NC, 08 January 1931
    Specifications:
    Displacement 61 gross tons
    Length 85' 0"
    Beam 20' 0"
    Draft 5' 5"
    Speed 7.9 knots
    Complement 3
    Armament none
    Propulsion
    vertical compound steam engine, 250hp
    one shaft
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    Shady Side
    1435207901    		 225k Shady Side at Annapolis, Maryland, about 1917, before entering naval service.
    Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 72846    		 Mike Green
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    DANFS history entry located on the Naval History and Heritage Command website
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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