Lighthouse tender

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Historic photograph of the lighthouse tender USCGC Fir at sea with the Cape Flattery Light in the background.

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.

[edit] External links

• Great Lakes Lighthouse tenders, Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light.
• Shanks, Ralph, National Historic Landmark Study National Park Service, Maritime History, Lighthouse Tender U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Fir (WLM 212) (1991), designated April 27, 1992.
• U.S. Coast Guard, Fir (WLM 212).

[edit] Bibliography and further reading

• 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).
• United States Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation Historical Bibliography.

[edit] See also

• USCG Coastal Buoy Tender

[edit] Notes

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