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Lighthouse tender

{{Short description|Boat for maintaining and supplying large maritime navigation beacons}}

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Image:20071025-Piraeus-A479-0028.jpg lighthouse tender HS Karavogiannos, A-479.]]

Image:THV-Galatea-1.jpg, 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. The work is often carried out by ships which also act as buoy tenders.

In the United States, these ships originally served as part of the Lighthouse Service and now are part of the Coast Guard. The first American tender of the Lighthouse Service was former revenue cutter {{USRC|Rushnourder|1831|2}}, which was acquired in 1840. The first steam tender was the {{USS|Shubrick|1865|2}}, completed in 1857 and put into service on the West Coast in 1858.Putnam, pages 210-211 The {{USCGC|Fir|WLM-212|2}} was the last active representative of the service, and is now a US National Historic Landmark.{{cite web |title=USCGC Fir |url={{NRHP url|id=92001880}}|publisher=National Park Service |access-date=2016-11-04}}

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References

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Further reading

  • {{cite web|title=Bibliography, Lighthouses, Lightships, Tenders & Other Aids to Navigation Subjects|url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/h_lhindex.asp|publisher=U.S. Coast Guard|access-date=4 November 2016}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Putnam|first1=George Rockwell|title=Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States|date=1917|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company|location=Boston|url=https://archive.org/details/lighthousesandl00putngoog|access-date=4 November 2016}}
  • United States Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation, (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 1945).
  • {{Cite uscgnavbib}}

External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080509101409/http://www.terrypepper.com/lights/closeups/tenders/index.htm Great Lakes Lighthouse tenders, Terry Pepper, Seeing the Light.]
  • [http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Fir_1940.asp U.S. Coast Guard, Fir (WLM 212).]

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