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USCGC Larkspur (WAGL 226)



Call sign:
Nan - Roger - Xray - Fox

ex-USLHT Larkspur



Call sign (Late 1919):
Nan - Able - Mike - Boy

Call sign (1927):
George - Vice - Pup - Mike
Lighthouse Tender:

  • The second Larkspur was built in 1903 by the Staten Island Shipbuilding Co., Port Richmond, NY
  • Commissioned USLHT Larkspur 24 February 1903
  • Acquired by the Navy 11 April 1917
  • Returned to the Department of Commerce 1 July 1919
  • Laid up in June 1933
  • Transferred to the Coast Guard in 1939 and designated USCGC Larkspur (WAGL 226)
  • Decommissioned 10 January 1946 at Curtis Bay, MD
  • Sold 19 February 1947 to W. B. Fountain
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 738 t.
    1919 - 685 t.
  • Length 169'
    1927 - 162'
  • Length between perpendiculars 162'
  • Beam 30'
  • Draft 9' 1"
    1919 - 14'
  • Speed 12 kts.
  • Complement 29
    1919 - 30
    1927 - 31
    1945 - 41
  • Armament: None
    World War II - Two 20mm mounts and one short depth charge track
  • Propulsion: Two water tube express boilers, two 375ihp vertical inverted compound fore and aft express steam engines, two shafts
    Converted from coal to oil burning in 1938.
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    Larkspur 141k 29 June 1943
    Photo from "U.S. Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939" by Douglas Peterson. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 2000    		 Robert Hurst
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