USLHT Marigold

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

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. Her last registered owner was Bay Harbor Marina in 1977. She was used sporadically into the early 1980s and was eventually scrapped in the 1990s. Despite persistent rumors her hull was not scuttled.

History
United States
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

Marigold hemmed in by ice (1923)^[1]

References

1. "How Our Lighthouses Use Radio" by George R. Putnam, Radio Broadcast, March 1923, page 370.

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

External links

• Seeing the Light : USLHT Marigold