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USCGC Hollyhock (WLM 220)
ex-USCGC Hollyhock (WAGL 220)



Call sign:
November - Romeo - Xray - Tango

ex-USLHT Hollyhock

Hollyhock Class Buoy Tender:

  • The first Hollyhock was built in 1937 by Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan
  • Launched 24 March 1937
  • Sponsored by Miss Geraldine Park, the daughter of Mr. C. A. Park, the Deputy Commissioner of Lighthouses
  • Commissioned USLHT Hollyhock, 7 August 1937
  • Designated in 1939 as a Coastal Buoy Tender USCGC Hollyhock (WAGL 220)
  • Later reclassified as a Inland Buoy Tender WLM-220
  • Decommissioned 31 March 1982
  • Sold and renamed Good News Mission Ship
  • Sunk as an artificial reef off Pompano Beach, Florida in 1990.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 885 t.
  • Length 174' 10"
  • Beam 32'
  • Draft 11' 3"
  • Complement 38 (1966)
  • Speed 7.5 kts.
  • Propulsion: Two Babcock and Wilcox oil-fired water-tube boilers, two 500shp triple expansion steam engine, one shaft
    Replaced in 1954 by two 675 shp Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines with reduction gears.
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    Hollyhock 131k
    Namesake:

    Hollyhocks - Alcea is a genus of over 80 species of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, commonly known as the hollyhocks. They are native to Asia and Europe. The single species of hollyhock from the Americas, the streambank wild hollyhock, belongs to a different genus

    		 Tommy Trampp
    Photo added 6 March 2022
    Hollyhock 164k 20 September 1937
    Smithsonian Institute photo from U.S. Lighthouse Society website    		 John Spivey
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