| USCGC Lilac (WAGL-227) | |
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 Lilac docked at Pier 25 in Manhattan, April 2017. | |
| Career (United States) |  |
| Name: | USCGC Lilac (WAGL-227) |
| Ordered: | 13 April 1931 |
| Builder: | Pusey & Jones Company |
| Cost: | $334,900 |
| Launched: | 26 May 1933 |
| Commissioned: | 1933 |
| Decommissioned: | 3 February 1972 |
| Status: | Museum ship |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type: | Lighthouse tender |
| Displacement: | 799 tons |
| Length: | 173 ft 4 in (52.83 m) |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
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| Speed: | 11 knots maximum |
| Range: | 1,734 nm @ 10.0 knots |
| Complement: | 38 |
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The USCGC Lilac (WAGL/WLM-227) is a former Coast Guard lighthouse tender currently located in New York City. The Lilac is America's only surviving steam-powered lighthouse tender. It was built in 1933 at the Pusey & Jones Shipyard in Wilmington, Delaware.[2] In the 1950s she assisted several ships that collided. Decommissioned in 1972, she was donated to the Harry Lundeburg Seamanship School of Seafarers International Union.[2] She was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2005.[3] She is a museum ship, docked at Pier 25, near North Moore Street in Manhattan.
References[]
- ↑ "Lilac, 1933". https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Lilac_1933.pdf. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Brouwer, Norman. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lilac". July 2004. National Park Service. http://lilacpreservationproject.org/images/Lilac_nomination_for_historic_places.pdf. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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