USCGC Lilac (WAGL-227)

Lilac docked at Pier 25 in Manhattan, April 2017.
History
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)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
  • Twin screws
  • 1,000 shp (750 kW)
Speed: 11 knots maximum
Range: 1,734 nm @ 10.0 knots
Complement: 38
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • SPN-11 radar
  • UNQ-1 sonar (1961)
Armament:
USCGC Lilac
USCGC Lilac
USCGC Lilac
USCGC Lilac
Location Pier 25, New York, New York
Coordinates 40°43′58″N 74°0′46″W / 40.73278°N 74.01278°W / 40.73278; -74.01278Coordinates: 40°43′58″N 74°0′46″W / 40.73278°N 74.01278°W / 40.73278; -74.01278
Built 1933
Architect Pusey & Jones Shipyard
Architectural style Lighthouse tender
NRHP reference # 04001441[2]
Added to NRHP January 7, 2005

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.[3] 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.[3] She was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 2005.[2] She is a museum ship, docked at Pier 25, near North Moore Street in Manhattan.

References

  1. ↑ "Lilac, 1933" (PDF). United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. 1 2 Brouwer, Norman. "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lilac" (PDF). July 2004. National Park Service. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
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