https://www.archives.gov/research/military/navy/muster-rolls
They don't appear to be available online from a quick search. (Some have been digitized by private groups, but could not see the specific branch or time frame you seek at a glance.) So, one would need to contact the National Archives, it would seem. Whether they then actually have the harbor tug in question is also unkown. (And, if a harbor tug, he may actually have been considered attached to a shore installation, perhaps?? Maybe a barracks at the harbor? I don't know how the records work, but if the tug itself does not turn up, they mention shore installations, and it would then perhaps be worth checking those.)
HTH some. Hope more folks can help more.
I received a rather lengthy email at work (I work at a museum) from a person attempting to research her grandfather that was both in the Navy and in the Emergency Fleet during / after WWI. He served aboard the tug YT-5 Samoset in the Philadelphia Navy Yard
https://www.navsource.org/archives/14/08005.htm
She has questions about his enlistment as photos show him in different uniforms (enlisted vs emergency) during that era. I've seen muster rolls for WWII, but I've never encountered WWI muster rolls and definitely not for a harbor tug (Navy or not). I'm hoping someone more well versed in this subject might have suggestions.
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