YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick is a class of US Navy derrick crane ship. While listed to service seaplanes the crane was able to lift small boats and large engines also. Hull classification symbol YSD is for Yard Seaplane Dirrick, Yard as in ship repair yard. YSD-11s were used to remove broken seaplanes from the water for repair or regular maintenance. The US had 2,661 Consolidated PBY Catalina built for the war, Canada built 620. Other seaplanes built in mass production were the 1,366 Martin PBM Mariner, 749 Short Sunderland and 345 Grumman G-21 Goose. The YSD-11 Class Derrick was built to support World War 2, having a displacement of 220 tons no load and 270 tons loaded. The YSD-11 Class had a length 104 feet; a beam of 31 feet and 2 inches; a draft of 4 feet. They had a top speed 10 knots, built with a steel hull. The ship had one American Hoist & Derrick model 685 rotating crane. The crane had a boom of 54 feet with a lifting capacity of 10 tons. The crane was powered by a 6-cylinder Cummins Diesel engine. The ship housed a crew of one Officer and 15 Enlisted men. The ships had a diving gear locker for the crew salvage work. For service power, the ship had two generators: one 30Kw Diesel engine to electric generator and one 20Kw Diesel Generator. Ship power was from two Superior model MRDB-8 200 HP Diesel engines with two propellers, 640shp. The YSD-11 Class Derricks were built by a number of United States shipyards, including Moore Equipment Company, Puget Sound Navy Yard, Charleston Navy Yard, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Soule Steel Company, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard and Boston Navy Yard.
Moore Equipment Company in Stockton, California built YSD-11 Class Seaplane Wrecking Derrick:
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 35 | 1943 | Worked 17th Naval District, accidentally lost, 16 May 1946[1] |
YSD 36 | 1943 | Lost on 9 August 1946 off Okinawa[2] |
YSD 37 | 1943 | Lost off Eniwetok 10 December 1946[3] |
YSD 42 | 1943 | lost off Guam May 1976[4] |
YSD 43 | 1943 | Lost off Eniwetok October 1946[5] |
YSD 44 | 1943 | [6] |
YSD 45 | 1943 | [7] |
YSD 46 | 1943 | To National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) in 1974[8] |
YSD 47 | 1943 | [9] |
YSD 48 | 1943 | Typhoon Louise at Okinawa, 9 October 1945, Lost[10] |
YSD 49 | 1943 | [11] |
YSD 50 | 1943 | [12] |
Built by Boston Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts :[13]
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 11 | 15-Nov-40 | scrapped in the 1980s[14] |
YSD 20 | 6-Mar-41 | Foundered in Gulf of Mexico on 3 August 1963[15] |
YSD 22 | 14-Feb-41 | To Army Corps of Engineers in 1972 renamed Fry, Sold in 2013[16] |
YSD 23 | 15-Feb-41 | Sold to Schultz Contracting Corp. of Miami, FL renamed Mary King (ON 284675) in 1961[17] |
Charleston Naval Shipyard in Charleston, South Carolina built:[18]
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 10 | 1933 | Sold to Dravo Corp. in Pittsburgh, PA, renamed Dravo 45 (ON 286374) in 1961, sold to Trinity Marine, Baton Rouge, LA renamed PA 45[19] |
YSD 12 | 1933 | To Army Corps of Engineers as Toro in 1947 at Mobile, AL, sold to American Commercial Lines, Jeffersonville, IN, as Toro (ON 561176) in 1974. Foundered in off New Orleans on 20 March 1999.[20] |
YSD 13 | 1933 | To Army Corps of Engineers as Belmont in 1960, scrapped by Navy on 8 July 1994[21] |
YSD 16 | 1933 | Worked 10th Naval District, in NOB Trinidad during WW2, sold in 1966 to Miss Agnes Corp., Miami, FL as Miss Agnes (ON 512147), sold to Fred B. Carlisle, Miami, FL as Miss Agnes in 1975.[22] |
YSD 21 | 1941 | Worked 10th Naval District in WW2, after war transferred to other Government agency and sold in 1975[23] |
YSD 33 | 1943 | worked 8th Naval District for WW2, struck from Navy 1 June 1974, sold 1 December 1974 to Production Aggregate & Gravel, Orange, TX, (ON 587827) in 1977[24] |
YSD 34 | 1943 | Worked 1st Naval District for WW2, struck from the Navy on 15 April 1974, sold for scrapping 1979[25] |
YSD 59 | 1943 | Worked Sixth Naval District for WW2, transferred to Army renamed Merritt on 18 August 1960, converted to dredge in 1964[26] |
YSD 70 | 1943 | [27] |
YSD 71 | 1943 | [28] |
YSD 72 | 1943 | [29] |
YSD 73 | 1943 | [30] |
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Washington built:
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 15 | 1933 | worked in Seattle for Navy, 10 April 1984 moved to work at NDRF Olympia, WA, as service craft, to NDRF Suisun Bay as FS 6 struck in 1984.[31] |
YSD 18 | 1933 | Navy sold to Madjic & Sons, Kodiak, AK as Barb M. II (ON 598253) in 1977, renamed Maxine M. in 2009, renamed Mary B. in 2013, working in Kodiak, AK.[32] |
YSD 24 | 1941 | Navy sold in 1960 to Harvey Aluminum Inc., Torrance, CA, later renamed Seahorse working in Pacific Northwest.[33] |
YSD 25 | 1941 | Navy sold in 1974, to International Marine Constructors, Santa Barbara (ON 564392) in 1975, Sold to Ocean Systems, Inc., Santa Barbara as D/B Samson in 1977, scrapped in 2007. Scrapped 1974[34] |
YSD 26 | 1941 | To US Army as Coyote in 1975, Sold in the 2000s.[35] |
Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California built:[36]
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 29 | 1941 | Worked 11th Naval District for WW2, Struck from Navy 1 November 1970, sold at Long Beach, CA on 30 June 1971[37] |
YSD 30 | 1941 | Worked 14th Naval District for WW2, towed to Pearl Harbor by Sirius (AK-15) from 21 July to 3 August 1942, worked NAS Palmyra Island from 1942 to 1946. Foundered under tow from Palmyra on 8 December 1946.[38] |
YSD 31 | 1941 | worked 13th Naval District at NAS Astoria and 17th Naval District at NOB Adak for WW2, struck 29 September 1947, To War Shipping Administration for sale 10 March 1948,Sold to Manson Construction & Engineering Co., Seattle, WA, as Manson Derrick 4 (ON 267655) in 1954. Sold to Vulcan, Juneau, AK renamed Vulcan in 1978[39] |
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, in Honolulu, Hawaii built:[40]
Name | Built | Notes |
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YSD 17 | 1933 | Worked the 14th Naval District at Pearl Harbor for WW2, renamed FS 62 in 1956 worked in NDRF Suisun Bay 1956- to 1975. Sold to William H. Weber DBA Omni Mechanical Services, Long Beach, CA, renamed Geronimo (ON 585061) in 1977. Abandoned on Terminal Island, CA in 2008, wreckage removed in 2017[41] |
YSD 19 | 1933 | Worked the 14th Naval District for WW2 in Pearl Harbor and Midway. Sold as MPE 19 (ON 504318) in 1966. Sold to Mexico port in 1974. YSD-19 earned one battle star for WW2.[42] |
YSD 27 | 1941 | Worked Fourteenth Naval District in WW2, in repair of battleships at Pearl Harbor. then to Johnston Island, then Eniwetok in 1944, then to Tenth Naval District at Roosevelt Roads in 1946. Struck from Navy 1 August 1971, sold 24 August 1972 to White Star Management, Miami, FL, as El Tuto (ON 580093)[43] |
YSD 32 | 1942 | Reclassified YSR-8 before completion,to help with the salvage of ships after Pearl Harbor attack, worked with 14th Naval District, Struck Navy 1 May 1967. YSD a Class of Sludge Removal Barge.[44] |
YSD 55 | 1943 | Worked 14th Naval District on battleships at Pearl Harbor 1942 - 1945, became Ferryboat YFB-84 in 1964. Struck Navy 1 August 1969, sold in 1971, scrapped in 1974[45] |
YSD 74 | 1943 | [46] |
YSD 75 | 1943 | [47] |
Soule Steel Company in San Francisco built. (Bridge and building builder):
Omaha Steel Works in Omaha, Nebraska built (Bridge builder, the only ships built):[54]
Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. in Leavenworth, Kansas built:
YSD - Seaplane Wrecking Derrick were given the US Navy nicknamed Mary Annes because of their resemblance to the children's book illustrator Virginia Lee Burton Steam Shovel in the classic 1939 children's book by Mike Mulligan.[62]
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