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Photo # NH 41600:  Ambulance Boat No. 1 soon after completion in 1919.

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U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1 (later YH-1), 1919-1939.

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1, a 54-ton, 65-foot wooden-hulled craft propelled by a four-cylinder gasoline engine, was built at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California. In November 1918 the Navy Department had placed an order with Mare Island for ten additional 54-ton motor tugs (six others had been ordered earlier in 1918 from Mare Island and Pearl Harbor), but soon decided to complete three of the later hulls, Motor Tugs Nos. 97, 100, and 101 as Ambulance Boats Nos. 1-3 respectively. This change took effect before the launching of the first unit, Ambulance Boat No. 1 (ex-Motor Tug No. 97) on 24 July 1919. The ambulance boats received their own hull type symbol, YH, when the Navy implemented its standard hull classification system in July 1920. Ambulance Boat No. 1 (later YH-1) entered service on 18 August 1919 and served for her entire career in the San Francisco Bay area (her two sisters were both transferred to Norfolk, Virginia upon completion). She was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in December 1938 and sold in March 1939.

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Photo #: NH 41600

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, probably soon after 18 August 1919, when she entered service.
This craft was converted before or during the early stages of construction from Motor Tug No. 97 and was classified YH-1 in July 1920.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 41601

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1


Lowering a stretcher containing a patient through the starboard side of the booby hatch aft of the pilot house. Photographed at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 31 October 1919. Note the stretchers already suspended under the port side of the hatch.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41799

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1


Just before her launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 July 1919. Preparing to christen the vessel is the daughter of Commander John L. Neilson, USN (Medical Corps). Commander Neilson is also on the platform.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 48KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 41602

U. S. Navy Ambulance Boat No. 1


Launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 July 1919. Note that much of her ambulance boat deckhouse is already in place.
This craft was converted before or during the early stages of construction from Motor Tug No. 97 and was classified YH-1 in July 1920.

Collection of Rear Admiral Ammen C. Farenholt, USN (Medical Corps).

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 565 pixels

 


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