USLHT Mangrove
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USLHT Mangrove was a lighthouse tender in commission in the fleet of the United States Lighthouse Board from December 1897 to April 1898 and from August 1898 to 1910, in the United States Lighthouse Service from 1910 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1939, and in the United States Coast Guard (as USCGC Mangrove) from 1939 to 1941 and in 1946. She also saw commissioned service in the United States Navy as USS Mangrove on three occasions, operating as an armed supply ship from April to August 1898 during the Spanish–American War, during which she fought the last battle of that war; as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 during and in the aftermath of World War I; and as a buoy tender from 1941 to 1946 during and in the aftermath of World War II.
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Mangrove in 1898 during the Spanish–American War. | |
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United States Lighthouse Board | |
Name | USLHT Mangrove |
Namesake | Mangrove, a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water |
Builder | Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey |
Cost | $74,997.63 |
Completed | 1897 |
Commissioned | 1 December 1897 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 10 April 1898 |
Acquired | 18 August 1898 (from U.S. Navy) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service 1910 |
United States | |
Name | USS Mangrove |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | 10 April 1898 (from U.S. Lighthouse Board) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Board 18 August 1898 |
Acquired | 11 April 1917 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service 1 July 1919 |
Acquired | 1 November 1941 (from U.S. Coast Guard) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1 January 1946 |
United States Lighthouse Service | |
Name | USLHT Mangrove |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | 1910 (from U.S. Lighthouse Board) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 11 April 1917 |
Acquired | 1 July 1919 (from U.S. Navy) |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1 July 1939 |
United States Coast Guard | |
Name | USCGC Mangrove (WAGL-232) |
Namesake | Previous name retained |
Acquired | 1 July 1939 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service) |
Reclassified | WAGL-232 |
Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy 1 November 1941 |
Acquired | 1 January 1946 (from U.S. Navy) |
Decommissioned | 22 August 1946 |
Fate | Sold for scrapping 6 May 1947 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Lighthouse tender |
Displacement | |
Length | 164 ft (50.0 m) (overall) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
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Speed | 10 knots |
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