Please report any broken links or trouble you might come across to the Webmaster. Please take a moment to let us know so that we can correct any problems and make your visit as enjoyable and as informative as possible.

NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

Calistoga (YFB-21)

Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal

Built by Maryland Steel Co., Sparrows Point, MD (YN 78)

Launched, October 1907

Completed for Baltimore Steam Packet Co., Baltimore, MD, as Florida (ON 204629), 29 November 1907

Sold to Monticello Steamship Co., San Francisco, CA, renamed Calistoga, 1924

Sold to Golden Gate Ferry Co., San Francisco, CA, 1927

Company renamed Southern Pacific-Golden Gate Ferry Co., 1929

Placed out of business with opening of Bay and Golden Gate bridges and laid up, 1937

Purchased by US Navy for $25,500, 26 April 1941

Placed in service as Calistoga (YFB-21), 18 September 1941

Intended as a back-up ferry, but only used as a floating barracks at Mare Island

Declared surplus, August 1946

Sold for scrap to Moore Dry Dock Co., Oakland, CA, 29 July 1947

Struck from the Naval Register, 21 October 1947

Final disposition, burnt on Alameda shore for scrap, 1948

Specifications:
Displacement 2680 gross tons
Length 298'
Beam 45'
Draft 16'
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Armament none
Propulsion cross-compound, condensing, reciprocating steam engine, 2600ihp (removed)

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description	Contributed By
1435002103	61k	*Calistoga* on her shakedown cruise in San Francisco Bay, 1925. California State Library photo 2008-0290	Dave Wright
0538515	153k	Calistoga (YFB-21) is in the background of this amidships plan view of Fanning (DD-385) at Navy Yard Mare Island, 02 June 1942 Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 3061-42.	Darryl Baker
1435002102	61k	Calistoga (YFB-21) at Mare Island, 17 May 1943. National Archives photo 19-N-47586 (cropped)	Dave Wright
1435002101	93k	Calistoga (YFB-21) at Mare Island, 14 June 1943. The yard tug YMT-11 is on the quay wall for repairs to the left. Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 4358-43	Darryl Baker

View the Calistoga (YFB-21)
DANFS history entry located at the Haze Gray and Underway website

Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log

Back to the Navsource Photo Archives Main Page

Back To The Service Craft Index

Back To The Ferry Boat (YFB) Photo Index

Comments, Suggestions, E-mail Webmaster.

This page was created by Gary P. Priolo and is maintained by David L. Wright

Last Updated 24 July 2015