Yuba (snagboat)

Yuba was a stern-wheeled, shallow draft steamship ordered by the United States Army Corps of Engineers) to serve as a snagboat on the Sacramento River. Her namesake was the Yuba River, a tributary of the Feather River which was the principal tributary of the Sacramento River. The first snagboat on the Sacramento River, Seizer (240 GRT, 1881), had retired in 1921^[3] and its replacement, Bear (242 GT, 1921),^[4] was in need of support. Yuba was laid down on 19 November 1924^[5] at the Alameda, California shipyard of A. W. de Young Boat & Shipbuilding Company^[2] who won the contract with a bid price of $78,346.^[6] The ship was designed by Captain Thomas B. Foster.^[1] The engine from the retired snagboat Seizer was utilized.^[7] She was launched on 27 February 1925,^[8] completed in March 1925,^[5] and commissioned in April 1925.^[1] She carried a complement of 4 officers and 26 enlisted men.^[2] She worked primarily on the San Joaquin River, the Mokelumne River, and the Sacramento River.^[9] Her ultimate fate is unknown.

• McCurry Foto Co. "Two port-side views of the stern wheeler, snag boat "Yuba" on the Sacramento River. "US Engineers Department" lettered on the bow". ExLibris via the Center for Sacramento History.