Historic photograph of the lighthouse tender USCGC Fir at sea with the Cape Flattery Light in the background.
Hellenic Navy lighthouse tender HS Karavogiannos, A-479.
THV Galatea, a lighthouse tender operated by Trinity House.
A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses, or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail and transportation.
In the United States, these ships originally served as part of the Lighthouse Service and now are part of the Coast Guard. The first ship constructed as a tender was Shubrick. However, the first American tender of the Lighthouse Service was a former revenue cutter, "Rush", which was acquired in 1840.[1]
The USCGC Fir (WLM-212) was the last active representative of the service, and is now a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
See also[]
- MV Cape Don
- THV Galatea
- Trinity House
- USCG coastal buoy tender
References[]
Further reading[]
- Bibliography, Lighthouses, Lightships, Tenders & Other Aids to Navigation Subjects, U.S. Coast Guard.
- Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
- 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. http://www.uscg.mil/History/weblighthouses/h_lhbib.asp.
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