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USLHT Laurel



Call sign (1919):
Nan - Able - Love - Vice

Call sign (1924):
George - Vice - Rush - Pup

Lake George call sign (1948):
William - Oboe - Fox - King

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

Lighthouse Tender:

  • The second Laurel was built in 1915 by Spedden Shipbuilding, Baltimore, MD
  • Launched 24 June 1914
  • Commissioned USLHT Laurel 21 May 1915
  • Transferred to the Navy by Executive Order in 1917
  • Returned to the Department of Commerce 1 July 1919
  • Decommissioned 6 October 1930
  • Sold 24 March 1931
  • Registered in 1948 to the St. Johns River Line Co. of Jacksonville, FL as the freighter Lake George
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 299 t.
    1948 - 288 t.
  • Length 105'
    1931 - 95.5'
    1948 - 99.6'
  • Beam 22'
    1948 - 22.2'
  • Draft 6' 1"
    1931 - 9'
    1948 - 8.4'
  • Complement 12
    1931 - 16
    1948 - Five
  • Propulsion: One Almy water tube boiler, one 160hp triple expansion steam engine, one shaft.
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    Laurel 142k National Archives photo The J. Candace Clifford, Lighthouse Research Catalog
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