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NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive

YM-2
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Y&D No. 3 (1905 - 1920)

Dredge

Built at Navy Yard, Mare Island

Placed in service as "Flusher", 1905

Numbered Yard & Docks No. 3 by 1907-08

Designated YM-2, 17 July 1920

Assigned to Twelfth Naval District at Mare Island, 1905-1922

Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown

Sold, 01 June 1922

FInal disposition, unknown

Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 70' 6"
Beam 34' 6"
Draft unknown
Propulsion none
Description wood hull, steam machinery

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
299k	Machinery for Mare Island's *"Flushing Scow"* being installed, 03 April 1906. The scow's deckhouse has not yet been constructed. MINSY photo 635-4-1906	Darryl Baker
355k	*"Flusher"* in operation in front of Dry Dock No. 1, Mare Island, 19 November 1906. Note ferryboat *Vallejo* (ON 155011, 1879-1953) passing in background. MINSY photo 759-11-1906	Darryl Baker
268k	Two views of *"Flusher"* operating at Mare island's torpedo boat wharf, 13 December 1906. Tug *Unadilla* is alongside. MINSY photos 777-12-1906 and 778-12-1906	Darryl Baker
175k		Darryl Baker
268k	Two views of the machinery arrangement aboard *"Flusher", 13 December 1906. MINSY photos 779-12-1906 and 780-12-1906*	Darryl Baker
175k		Darryl Baker
318k	Dry Dock No. 1's caisson resting on mud in front of the dock, 17 June 1907. Note *"Flusher"* working in the background. MINSY photo 840-6-1907	Darryl Baker
185k	*"Flusher"* dredging mud into a mud scow in front of Dry Dock No. 1, 07 August 1907. Note piledriver in background. MINSY photo 856-8-1907	Darryl Baker
207k	Laying water pipe across Mare Island Strait, 22 April 1908. Note *"Flusher"* has been designated *Y&D No. 3* by this stage of her career. MINSY photo 904-4-1908	Darryl Baker
258k	Seen from left to right on the waterfront at Mare Island sometime between 18 - 31 July 1913 are *Dredger No. 2* (later YM-2), sampan lighters YF-29 and YF-30 on the seawall behind the dredge, and a small steam launch, Dart (YFB-308) and Pinafore (YFB-450). The yard's 40-ton dry dock crane is to the right of the dredge. Palos (Gunboat No. 16) is on the ways to the left of the cantilever crane, and Kanawha (Fuel Ship No. 13 is on the ways to the right U.S. Navy photo 5396	Darryl Baker