USLHT Azalea (1891)
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| Career (United States) |  |
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| Name: | USLHT Azalea |
| Namesake: | azalea |
| Operator: | United States Lighthouse Service United States Navy |
| Builder: | Jonson Foundry & Machine Company |
| Cost: | $79,792.40 |
| Commissioned: | June 25, 1891 (US Lighthouse Service) May 9, 1917 (US Navy) |
| Decommissioned: | June 30, 1933 (US Lighthouse Service) July 1, 1919 (US Navy) |
| Fate: | Sold |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Lighthouse tender |
| Tonnage: | 516 tons |
| Length: | 154 feet (47 m) |
| Beam: | 24 feet 3 inches (7.4 m) |
| Draft: | 12 feet 4 inches (3.8 m) |
| Installed power: | 400 horsepower (300 kW) |
| Complement: | 5 officers, 14 crew |
| Armament: | None |
The USLHT Azalea, briefly the USS Azalea was a lighthouse tender built in 1891 for the United States Lighthouse Service. She was transferred to the United States Navy on April 16, 1917 and commissioned May 9, 1917. Her role in the Navy was to salvage navigational aids, adjust buoys, and tended nets during World War I. She was returned to the Lighthouse service July 1, 1919.
She returned to duty in the Second Light House District. Azalea collided with the schooner Lavinia M. Snow off Pollock Rip in 1921 but was repaired and returned to service. She was decommissioned and sold in 1933.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
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