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Photo # NH 41616:  U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84, circa 1919.

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U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84 (classified YT-84 in 1920), 1919-1922.

Harbor Tug No. 84, a 215-ton, 88-foot long wooden-hulled tug propelled by a single cylinder steam engine, was built at Brooklyn, New York, as one of 40 sisters (Harbor Tugs Nos. 46-85) ordered by the Navy in May and June 1918 as part of its World War I emergency shipbuilding effort. Her keel was laid down in June 1918. Launched in October 1918, she was commissioned in April 1919. In May 1919 the tug was loaned to the Coast Guard and manned by a Coast Guard crew for duty in support of the collector of customs at New York. In November 1919, after the Coast Guard reverted to the Treasury Department, it returned Harbor Tug No. 84 to the Navy and received instead Harbor Tugs Nos. 59 and 60, which remained on the Coast Guard register until 1934 under the names Chautauqua and Chippewa. In December 1919 the Navy ordered Harbor Tug No. 84 placed in reduced commission at New York. She was classified YT-84 when the Navy implemented its standard hull classification system in July 1920. Harbor Tug No. 84 was decommissioned in March 1922 and, in July 1922, sold to a New York towing firm.

This page features all the views we have concerning U.S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84 (later YT-84).


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Photo #: NH 41616

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84


Photographed shortly after her completion in April 1919 at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 104674

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 79 or Harbor Tug No. 84


Probably photographed soon after completion in 1919. This photo is identified both as Harbor Tug No. 79 and as Harbor Tug No. 84. If the photo was taken at the yard of the tug's builder, it is more likely Harbor Tug No. 79, built at Morris Heights, New York, opposite the northern end of Manhattan Island, than Harbor Tug No. 84, built further south at Brooklyn, New York.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,

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Photo #: NH 41617

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84


Under construction between June and October 1918 at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York. Her hull frames are being erected on her keel.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 445 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41618

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84


Under construction between June and October 1918 at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York. Her hull is in frame and will soon begin to receive side planking.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 440 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41619

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 84


Under construction between June and October 1918 at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York. Workers are installing the side planking on her hull frame.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 104706

U. S. Navy "Wood Harbor Tug"


Outboard profile of the Harbor Tug No. 46 class (Nos 46 through 85). This plan by the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair is dated 25 April 1919 and is signed by the bureau's chief, Naval Constructor David W. Taylor, USN. Its number is C&R No. 60815.
These tugs measured 88 feet in length and 20 feet in beam, displaced 215 tons, and had a designed speed of 10 knots.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 59KB; 740 x 435 pixels

 


Harbor Tug # 84 is visible, under construction, in the background of the following view:

Photo #: NH 41620

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85


Under construction at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York. The first frames are being installed shortly after her keel was laid in June 1918.
Behind her is Harbor Tug No. 84, in frame on the same building way.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 430 pixels

 


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