USS Littlehales (AGSC-15)
USS "YF-854" was an American "YF-852"-class covered lighter built in 1945. She was later commissioned by the United States Navy and renamed USS "Littlehales" (AGSC-15) in 1959, serving as a coastal survey ship. The ship is named after an American oceanographer George Washington Littlehales, an American chairman of the Section of Physical Oceanography, American Geophysical Union, and as vice president of the Section of Oceanography, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.