YF-53, a 110-foot (250 ton capacity) wooden barge, was built at at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1908 as Coal Barge # 210. Subsequently fitted with an enclosed superstructure, she was renamed Freight Lighter #53 in 1915. The barge became YF-53 in 1920, when the Navy implemented its system of alpha-numeric designators and hull numbers. After serving in the Fifth Naval District, which included the Norfolk Navy Yard, for her entire career, YF-53 was stricken from the register of Naval vessels in January 1944.
This page features the only views we have concerning YF-53, which was formerly Coal Barge # 210 and Freight Lighter # 53.
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NOTE: The following photographs show Freight Lighter # 53 as a subordinate element in a view of another subject:
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Page made 28 February 2006