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Aquidneck (YFB-14)


Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal - National Defense Service Medal
Aquidneck Class Yard Ferryboat:
  • Laid down, 28 July 1936, at Bath Iron Works, Corp., Bath, ME.
  • Launched, 13 February 1937
  • Delivered to the Navy, 22 May 1937
  • Placed in service, 28 May 1937, at Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, R.I.
  • Placed out of service, in reserve, in October 1971
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 1 July 1975
  • Transferred to the Department of the Interior, 1 November 1975
  • Turned over by the Department of the Interior to the State of Washington, 19 December 1975
  • Custody assumed by Pierce County, WA. in 1976, for the Steilacoom-Ketron Island-Anderson Island run, renamed M/V Steilacoom
  • Modified to single-ended propulsion, date unknown
  • Placed in backup status in 1994, returned to service in 2006
  • Sold February 2007, for $49,500 to R.T. Wallace of Hado Inc., Las Vegas, NV.
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 544 t.
    Length 151'
    Beam 53'
    Draft 9' 6"
    Speed 9 kts.
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion unknown
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    Aquidneck 21k Aquidneck (YFP-14) underway in Narragansett Bay, circa 1937.
    US National Archives photo # 80-G-457679 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.    		 Douglas Brown
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