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USCGC Mangrove (WAGL 232)



Call sign:
Nan - Roger - William - Xray

ex-USLHS Mangrove



Call sign (1924):
Nan - Able - Nan - Vice

Call sign (1919):
George - Vice - Nan - Tare

Mangrove served the Lighthouse Service, the U. S. Navy and the Coast Guard.

Lighthouse Tender:

  • Built in 1897 by Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, NJ
  • Commissioned USLHS Mangrove 1 December 1897
  • Acquired by the Navy 10 April 1898
  • Returned to the Lighthouse Service 18 August 1898
  • Transferred to the Navy 11 April 1917
  • Returned to the Treasury Department 1 July 1919
  • Again transferred to the Navy 1 November 1941
  • Designated WAGL 232
  • Returned to the Treasury Department 1 January 1946
  • Decommissioned 22 August 1946
  • Sold for scrap in March 1947.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 821 t.
    1919 - 572 t.
  • Length 164'
  • Length between perpendiculars 165'
  • Beam 30'
  • Draft 8' 6"
    1919 - 12'
  • Speed 10 kts.
  • Complement 31
    1919 - 29
    1945 - 40
  • Armament: None
    1945 - Two 20mm mounts
  • Propulsion: Two coal-fired Page and Burton watertube boilers, two 650shp compound inverted reciprocating steam engines, two shafts
    1919 - 550ihp.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Mangrove 196k Halftone photograph, taken during the Spanish-American War, 1898
    Photo from the contemporary book "War in Cuba"
    Courtesy of Alfred Cellier, 1977
    Naval Historical Center photo NH 85646    		 Robert Hurst
    Mangrove 203k c. 1898
    Photo from the collection of Rosalie and Bascom Grooms, Sr., courtesy of Florida keys Public Libraries
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