District Miscellaneous Auxiliaries (YAG)


On Hand 1922-1941: Selected District Unclassified Craft (file symbol YX)

  • YX-7 (Boxer) (training brig, described under AG)
  • YX-8 (C.T.B. No. 6, ex Morris) (former torpedo boat)
  • YX-10 (Favorite) (salvage tug, WWI ID # 1385, later IX-45, q.v.)
  • YX-11 (Grampus) (freight/passenger steamer, ID # 1708)
  • YX-12 (Hermes) (auxiliary schooner, WWI prize)
  • YX-13 (Herreshoff No. 308) (steam yacht, ID # 2232)
  • YX-14 (Nahant) (tug, ex Luckenbach No. 4, ID # 1250)
  • YX-18 (Traffic) (freight steamer, acquired circa 1894)
  • YX-19 (Transfer) (freight steamer, later IX-46, q.v.)
  • YX-20 (Goliah) (tug, ID # 1494)
  • YX-21 (Cuyahoga) (ex-Coast Guard cutter, later AG-26, q.v.)
  • YX-23 (Vamarie) (ketch-rigged yacht, later IX-47, q.v.)

Note: YX was a file symbol in the Navy Filing Manual and was never a hull type designator, the three surviving vessels with YX file symbols being merged into the IX list when IX became a hull type designator in 1941. The remaining units in the YX series included two small motorboats, Ahdeek (YX-5, 36-ft., ex ID # 2589) and Estelle (YX-9, 40-ft, ex ID # 747), a Naval Academy sloop, Robert Center (YX-17, 66-ft., acquired 1895), and a Naval Academy yawl, Argo (YX-6, 57-ft., acquired 1906). The other seven craft with YX file symbols were barges of various types.


1922-1945: Selected YAG


Note: The four named above, plus the four small units acquired in New Zealand in late 1942 (YAG 24-27), were the only YAGs to have names as well as hull numbers, while the other two above were significantly larger than the other World War II unnamed YAG's. The other units classified YAG (links below) were miscellaneous types of small craft with lengths between 90 and 160 feet.


1922-1945: Small YAG

Acquired July-December 1941:
  • YAG-2 (ex Robert O.)
  • YAG-3 (ex Paz II)
  • YAG-4 (ex Manapla)
  • YAG-5 (ex Radio)
  • YAG-6 (ex Enchantress)
  • YAG-7 (ex Baltimore)
Acquired March-September 1942:
  • YAG-12 (ex North Haven)
  • YAG-13 (ex Palace, briefly PYc-33)
  • YAG-14 (ex Tourist, briefly PYc-32)
  • YAG-16 (ex Icaros)
  • YAG-18 (ex Relief)
  • YAG-19 (ex Ellenar)
  • YAG-20 (ex Idyl)
  • YAG-21 (ex Lela)
  • YAG-22 (ex Oakland, served as YF-568)
Acquired in New Zealand October-November 1942:
  • YAG-24 (Awahou)
  • YAG-25 (Port Whangarei)
  • YAG-26 (Taupata)
  • YAG-27 (Kohi)
Acquired October 1942-May 1945:
  • YAG-28 (ex Samana)
  • YAG-30 (ex V. P. Handy)
  • YAG-31 (ex Dorothea)
  • YAG-33 (ex Unimak)
  • YAG-34 (ex Hiyu)


Other YAG Hull Numbers, 1920-1945