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USLHT Madroņo
ex-USS Madroņo
ex-USLHT Madroņo



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



Call sign (1919):
George - Vice - Nan - Fox
Lighthouse Tender:

  • Laid down in 1884 by John H. Dialogue, Camden, New Jersey
  • Commissioned USLHS Madroņo 14 September 1885
  • Acquired by the Navy 27 November 1917
  • Returned to the Department of Commerce 1 July 1919
  • Decommissioned in 1927 and sold
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 806 t.
    1917 - 241 t.
    1919 - 411 t.
  • Length 180' 6"
    1917 - 180'
  • Length between perpendiculars 164'
  • Beam 27' 6"
    1919 - 27'
  • Draft 11' 6"
    1917 - 10' 6"
    1919 - 15'
  • Complement 26
    1917 - 25
  • Armament: None
  • Propulsion: Two coal -fired return-flue boilers, one 700bhp compound inverted fore and aft surface condensing steam engine, one shaft
    1917 - One diesel engine
    1919- 750ihp
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Madrono 64k U.S. Lighthouse Service photo John Spivey
    Photo added 1 August 2021
    Madroņo 387k This rare shot from a glass negative shows how she looked in 1891
    Photo from "U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II" by David H. Grover    		 Robert Hurst
    Commanding Officers
    01LT J. A. Sellman, USNRF1918 - 1919
    Courtesy Joe Radigan
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