Yerba Buena, 1907
Builder: Unknown
Contracted: Unknown
Cost: $4,241
Built: 1906
Machinery: Gasoline internal combustion, single screw
Length: 42'
Beam: 10'
Draft: 4' 2"
Displacement: 14 tons
Launched: Unknown
Acquired: 29 October 1901
Commissioned: 1907
Disposition: Decommissioned 1933; sold in December 1933
Complement: 2 men
Cutter History:
Built as a harbor launch to tend aids to navigation in San Francisco Bay and ferry workers from San Francisco and Oakland to Yerba Buena Island where the Lighthouse Depot was located. The craft was put out of service before the completion of the Bay Bridge.
Sources:
Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis and Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.