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YFB-132
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 Launch No. 132 (1911 - 1920)
 Steam Cutter No. 132 (1907 - 1911)
 Ferry Launch No. 132 (1891- 1907)

Ferry Launch
  • Built at Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME
  • Launched, date unknown
  • Delivered and placed in service as Ferry Launch No. 132, 1892 or 1902 (sources differ)
  • Provided service throughout her Navy career between the Navy Yard and the city of Portsmouth, NH
  • Redesignated Steam Cutter No. 132, 1907
  • Redesignated Launch No. 132,1911
  • Redesignated YFB-132, 17 July 1920
  • Placed out of service, 09 January 1928
  • Struck for the Naval Register, October 1928
  • Transferred to the Commerce Department, assigned to the US Coast and Geodetic Survey and named USC&GS Echo, October 1928
  • USC&GS Echo operated in the Atlantic, 1928 - 1938
  • Registered to Southern Materials Corp., Norfolk, VA, as tug Echo (ON 237855), 1938
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown (last listed 1951)
    Specifications:
    Displacement 45 gross tons
    Length 64' 6"
    Beam 16'
    Draft 5' 7"
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament none
    Propulsion steam engine, 100hp; replaced with a gasoline engine, 75hp, by the USC&GS
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    YFB-132
    1435013201    		 61k YFB-132 departing the ferry landing at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, ME, 22 September 1926. She is headed across the Piscataqua River to the ferry landing at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Upriver to the right is the World War Memorial Bridge, completed in 1923 to connect Portsmouth and Kittery.
    Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 41608    		 NHHC
    USC&GS Echo
    YFB-132
    1435013202    		 101k USC&GS Echo moored pierside in Narragansett Bay, RI, 1930. Note the wheelhouse has been moved aft and the steam engine stack has been removed.
    Photo from C&GS Season's Report Sammons 1930-140.    		 Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.
    YFB-132
    1435013203    		 100k USC&GS Echo at Quicks Hole, MA, 24 July 1931.
    NOAA photo 0667    		 George Schneider
    YFB-132
    1435013204    		 75k USC&GS Echo at a boatyard, possibly under conversion for survey service, date unknown.
    NOAA photo 5441    		 George Schneider
    There is no DANFS history record for YFB-132 available at Navsource
    Crew Contact And Reunion Information
    U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation - Navy Log
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