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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

USS Active
USS Lively (YT-14)
YT-323
YTM-323

Flag Hoist/International Radio Call Sign:
November - Foxtrot - Quebec - Mike

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from top to bottom, left to right
Top Row - World War I Victory Medal
Bottom Row - Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal - American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Steam Tug:

Built in 1888, as the Steam Tug Active at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.

Launched (date unknown)

Purchased by the Navy, 18 April 1898, from John D. Spreckels Brothers Co.

Converted for naval service at Union Iron Works, San Francisco, CA.

Commissioned, USS Active, 6, July 1898, at Navy Yard Mare Island, Vallejo, CA., ENS. Thomas M. Shaw in command

Renamed USS Lively, 11 April 1918

Designated District Harbor Tug (YT-14), 17 July 1920

Decommissioned, 16 August 1926, at Navy Yard Mare Island, after sinking at her berth.

Struck from the Naval Register, 24 August 1929 (according to shipyard records)

Sold, 11 February 1930, for commercial service to the Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co., Seattle, WA.

renamed Active around 1937-1938

Reacquired by the Navy, 2 March 1942, as a bare boat charter, at Seattle, WA.

Designated as the unnamed District Harbor Tug YT-323

Converted for naval service by Lake Washington Shipyards, Houghton, WA.

Placed in service, 30 April 1942

Reclassified as District Harbor Tug Medium YTM-323, 11 May 1944

Placed out of service, 6 August 1945

Struck from the Navy Register, 1 September 1945

Returned to her owners, Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co.

Final Disposition, scrapped, in 1963

Specifications:
Displacement 296 t.
Length 107'
Beam 22' 6"
Draft 10'
Speed 12 kts.
Complement 21
Armament

two single 3" guns

two 37mm revolving cannon

one Gatling Gun
Propulsion steam, single screw

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Source
USS Active
	103k	*Active* at Mare Island, 6 July 1898 during her commissioning. Note: Large masts forward and aft. Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker
	68k	*Active* moored off Mare Island, (date unknown). Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker
	74k	*Active* moored pierside at the Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA., circa July 1898. Note damage to buildings in the background, caused by an earthquake the previous March. This tug was renamed *Lively* in 1918, and returned to service during World War II as *YT-323. US Navy photo # NH 57711* from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center.	US Naval Historical Center
	380k	*Active* is to the far right as Ontario (Fleet Collier No. 2) entering the water for first time during her launching at Mare Island, 5 December 1908. *Unadilla* is to the left of *Ontario* and *Fortune* is astern of *Unadilla*. US Navy photo.	Darryl Baker
	76k	*Active* alongside *Jupiter* the Mare Island Channel, 16 October 1913. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # AC 3 002-10-13	Darryl Baker
	60k	*Active* at the starboard bow of the cruiser *Cleveland* at Mare Island, 7 September 1916. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker
	76k	*Active* alongside the cruiser *Cleveland* at Mare Island, 7 September 1916. US Navy photo	Darryl Baker
USS Lively (YT-14)
	115k	Lively (YT-14) in dry dock #3 at Mare Island after being salvaged after sinking at her berth, 20 April 1926. She was brought into the dry dock suspended between coal barges *YC-465* and *YC-269*. Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker
	80k	Dutch submarine *K-XIII* at her berth at Navy Yard Mare Island, 4 September 1926. The tug Lively (YT 14) is in the background. Navy Yard Mare Island photo.	Darryl Baker