USS Mistletoe (1872)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Mistletoe.

The second USS Mistletoe was a wooden lighthouse tender built in 1872 by Robinson Hoffman and Company in Chester, Pennsylvania.^[1]

History
United States
Name	USS Mistletoe
Completed	1872
Commissioned	April 1917
Decommissioned	July 1919
General characteristics
Displacement	455 tons
Length	153 ft
Beam	26 ft
Draft	6 ft 9 in
Speed	10 knots
Complement	20
Armament	(As lighthouse tender) none

Service history

The ship was operated by the Lighthouse Service of the Commerce Department. On 11 April 1917, she was transferred to the Navy with the entire Lighthouse Service by executive order.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Mistletoe served during World War I as a patrol boat out of Section Base No. 8, Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Following the end of the war, the vessel was returned to the custody of the Department of Commerce, 1 July 1919.

References

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

1. "Lighthouse Tender Photo Archive". www.navsource.org. Retrieved 13 May 2020.