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YR-12
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 Floating Workshop No. 12
Covered Lighter No. 117
Gordon (ID No. 2172)

Floating Workshop:
  • Built in 1898 at Noack, CT. as the self-propelled lighter Gordon
  • Purchased by the US Navy, date unknown
  • Designated Freight Lighter No. 117
  • Allocated to the 3th Naval District
  • Converted in 1918 to Floating Workshop No. 12 at New York Navy Yard
  • Redesignated YR-12 in 1920
  • Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length 105'
    Beam 24' 1"
    Draft unknown
    Machinery unknown
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