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