USLHT Azalea
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States
| |
| Name: | USLHT Azalea |
| Namesake: | Azalea |
| Operator: | |
| Builder: | Jonson Foundry & Machine Company |
| Cost: |
|
| Commissioned: |
|
| Decommissioned: |
|
| Fate: | Sold |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Lighthouse tender |
| Tonnage: | 516 tons |
| Length: | 154 ft (47 m) |
| Beam: | 24 ft 3 in (7.39 m) |
| Draft: | 12 ft 4 in (3.76 m) |
| Installed power: | 400 hp (300 kW) |
| Complement: | 5 officers, 14 crew |
| Armament: | None |
The USLHT Azalea, briefly the USS Azalea was a lighthouse tender built in 1891 for the United States Lighthouse Service. She was transferred to the United States Navy on 16 April 1917 and commissioned 9 May 1917. Her role in the Navy was to salvage navigational aids, adjust buoys, and tended nets during World War I. She was returned to the Lighthouse service 1 July 1919.
She returned to duty in the Second Light House District. Azalea collided with the schooner Lavinia M. Snow off Pollock Rip in 1921 but was repaired and returned to service. She was decommissioned and sold in 1933.
Additional reading
- United States Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation, (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1945).
- Scott T. Price. "U. S. Coast Guard Aids to Navigation: A Historical Bibliography". United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.
- Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, October 12, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.