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USLHT Holly

Holly served both the U.S. Lighthouse Service and U.S. Navy

Holly Class Lighthouse Tender:

  • Built in 1881 by Malster & Reaney, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Commissioned USLHT Holly 1 September 1881
  • Acquired by the Navy 15 April 1917
  • Returned to the Lighthouse Service on 1 July 1919
  • Decommissioned 1 August 1931
  • Sold 4 December 1931
  • Her owners removed her engine and converted her for use as the barge Wright No. 1
  • Destroyed in 1944.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 499 t.
    1917 - 217 t.
  • Length 156'
    1917 - 167'
  • Beam 39' (Over paddle wheel guards), 24' 2" (Hull)
    1917 - 24'
  • Draft 9' 6"
    1917 - 8' 6"
  • Complement 21
    1917 - 23
  • Speed 9 kts.
  • Propulsion: One return flue "lobster back" coal-fired boiler, one 400bhp Marine condensing beam steam engine, Paddle wheels
    1917 - One Marine Leg boiler.
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    Holly 81k National Archives photo from U.S. Lighthouse Society website John Spivey
    View the USLHT Holly
    Coast Guard history entry located on the USCG Historian's Office website
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