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USCGC Columbine, United States Coast Guard

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USCGC Columbine (WAGL 208, WLI-208), United States Coast Guard

History

The United States Lighthouse Service Tender COLUMBINE was one of three tenders of the Linden-Class launched by the Lighthouse Service in the early 1930s. The other two were the Linden and the Wistaria. They were designed as bay and sound tenders and were constructed of steel with a large open deck and hold space forward and a wood and steel superstructure. They were the first tenders built with diesel-electric drive. They were well designed and constructed and had a long service career with both the Lighthouse Service and the Coast Guard. A report issued by the Coast Guard in 1962 noted that the Columbine "was designed for operation in inside waters, the last inclination experiment conducted on this vessel on 22 June 1948 . . . states . . . that the vessel . . . would have satisfactory stability under all normal operating conditions as a buoy tender on coastwise waters."

The Columbine, the second United States ship to bear the name, was laid in 1931 by Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland, California. She was commisioned into service 21 Oct 1931 and was assigned to the 18th Lighthouse District out of San Francisco. She remained based in San Francisco throughout her career, including servicing aids to navigation out of San Francisco Bay during World War II. She was designated WAGL-208 in 1942 and later reclassified as WLI-208.

She was decommissioned on 8 October 1965 and was sold on 29 June 1967.[1][2][3][4]

Specifications:

Displacement 400 t.
Length 121' 4"
Beam 25'
Draft 6' 9"
Speed 9 kts.
Complement 16 (1936)
Propulsion: Two 120shp Winton diesel engines, one shaft.

Sources

  1. NavSource Online, USCGC Columbine
  2. Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.
  3. Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft of World War II. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 1982.
  4. Robert Scheina. U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft, 1946-1990. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 1990.




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