USLHT Marigold

For other ships of the same name, see USS Marigold (1863).

Career
Name:	USLHT Marigold
Namesake:	Marigold
Launched:	1890
Commissioned:	1891
Decommissioned:	1945
Fate:	Sold into private service, 1946
General characteristics
Type:	Lighthouse tender
Displacement:	696 long tons (707 t)
Length:	160 ft (49 m)
Beam:	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draft:	11 ft (3.4 m)
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	31

The United States Lighthouse Tender Marigold was a lighthouse tender which served on the Great Lakes. She was launched in 1890 and delivered to the depot in Detroit early in 1891. The tender spent an unremarkable career in service, never needing a major retrofit and being drydocked only for a few minor repairs. She was decommissioned in 1945 and sold into private service in 1946, and spent her last years, having been extensively rebuilt, operating as a dredge under the name Miss Mudhen II. She was stripped and her hull was scrapped in Lake Huron sometime in the 1960's.

References

• This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links

• Seeing the Light : USLHT Marigold