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Motor Tug No. 86 (YT-86) Class: Photo Gallery

These photographs were selected as typical views of these tugs. For more see the comprehensive NavSource Photo Archive.

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"50-foot motor tug (No. 3901)" at Mare Island. This is either Special Motor Boat No. 3187 or one of two sisters built in 1917. "No. 3901" may be a photo number. (Photo: NavSource 140808601)

Special Motor Boat No. 3187 (later YT-118 and YMT-14), Motor Tug YT-86 (later YMT-1), and Freight Lighter YF-56 alongside USS Long (DD-209) on 21 September 1929 preparing to break the destroyer out of the San Diego reserve fleet to recommission.
(Photo: NavSource 140811802)

Motor Tug 89 (YT-89, later YMT-4) at Mare Island, probably soon after completion.
(Photo # NH 41603)

YT-90 (later YMT-5) was one of two units built at the Pearl Harbor Naval Station. (Photo # NH 41604)

YMT-5 (ex YT-90) passing the battleship Pennsylvania or Arizona.
(Photo: NavSource 140809002)

YT-93 (later YMT-7).
(Photo # NH 41605)

YT-94 (later YMT-8).
(Photo # NH 41606)

YT-95 (later YMT-9), probably at Mare Island soon after completion.
(Photo # NH 41607)

YMT-1 (ex YT-86) at San Diego facing a probable ocean-going tug of the contemporary Allegheny (AT-19) class.
(Photo: NavSource 140808602)

YMT-1 (ex YT-86). Note the small diesel exhaust stack added aft of the pilot house.
(Photo # NH 104621)

YMT-4 (ex YT-89) with a trunked diesel exhaust stack between her deckhouse and her towing bitt.
(Photo: NavSource 140809604)

YMT-2 (ex YT-87, right), YMT-4 (left), and Navigator (YT-39) assisting USS Henley (DD-391) after her launching at Mare Island on 12 January 1937. In the early 1930s YMT-2 received a derrick forward and had her pilot house moved.
(Photo: NavSource 140808701 cropped)

YTL-87 (ex YMT-2 ex YT-87) at Mare Island on 9 November 1945 showing her derrick and her pilot house moved to the forward end of her cabin.
(Photo: NavSource 140808701)

YMT-10 (ex YT-96) with YMT-4 alongside to starboard. Note the different sizes of the stacks.
(Photo: NavSource 140809603)

YTL-94 (ex YMT-8 ex YT-94) with another small tug alongside assisting USS Howard W. Gilmore (AS-16) at Mare Island on 13 July 1944. Note the large stack.
(Photo # NH 104622, cropped)