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USCGC Dahlia (WAGL 288)
ex-USCGC Dahlia

Lighthouse Tender:

  • The second Dahlia was laid down in 1933 by Great Lakes Engineering Works, River Rouge, Michigan
  • Commissioned USCGC Dahlia in August 1933
  • Designated WAGL-288 in 1942
  • Decommissioned 9 October 1964
  • Sold 20 May 1965 to the government of Suriname
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 160 t.
  • Length 81' 2"
  • Beam 21'
  • Draft 9'
  • Speed 10 kts.
  • Complement 16 (1936)
  • Propulsion: One 235bhp Winton diesel engine (Replaced with one General Motors diesel engine after World War II), one shaft.
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    Dahlia 73b
    Namesake:

    DahliaA genus of flowers of the aster family

    		 Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 19 February 2022
    Dahlia 103b c. 1940
    U.S. Coast Guard photo from U.S. Lighthouse Society website    		 John Spivey
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