Talk:List of yard and district craft of the United States Navy

Why this article?
Simply, the article List of auxiliaries of the United States Navy is too large for many computers to load and display. The most effective way to shorten it is to remove ships that can be coherently placed into other list articles. Yard and district craft are a prime candidate. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 21:40, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Discovery of possible waste
More info at User:Tfdavisatsnetnet § New articles: "...I knew I had to look for more info on such [yard and district] craft [for this article], and after a month I noticed that there was an interesting story in these rather uninteresting craft: the US Navy over the years had engaged in a huge number of conversions of these craft from one role to another, to a degree that appeared wasteful. I suspect this was due to the autonomy of each naval district. A rather boring list [article] turned out to have real value from a metadata viewpoint..."
 * Thanks! Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 05:47, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

YC and YF
The hull classification symbols YC and YF stand for 'Open barge' and 'Covered barge' respectively. It is highly likely that (as per the quasi-acronym nature of these symbols) that these originally stood for 'Coal barge' and 'Freight barge' and were redesignated to 'Open barge' and 'Covered barge' with the near-simultaneous decision to drop coal as a ship fuel. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 12:49, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

Nuclear testing
Several barges were used to suspend nuclear devices during testing in the 1950's and 1960's in the Pacific. It would be of interest if such barges could be identified and so noted in this article. Tfdavisatsnetnet (talk) 12:52, 4 June 2022 (UTC)