USLHT Dahlia

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Pennant of the United States Lighthouse Service.png United States
Name: USLHT Dahlia
Namesake: Dahlia
Builder: Neafie & Levy
Launched: 1874
Fate:
  • Sold into commercial service, 5 May 1909
  • Wrecked, 11 March 1912
General characteristics [1] [2]
Type: Lighthouse tender
Tonnage:
  • 623 long tons (633 t) gross
  • 353 long tons (359 t) net
Length: 129 ft 5 in (39.45 m)
Beam: 25 ft (7.6 m)
Draft: 10 ft 5 in (3.18 m)
Propulsion: Steeple compound engine, 1 screw
Armament: None

The United States Lighthouse Tender Dahlia was a lighthouse tender serving on the Great Lakes.

Lighthouse tender

A lighthouse tender is a ship specifically designed to maintain, support, or tend to lighthouses or lightvessels, providing supplies, fuel, mail, and transportation.

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The first Great Lakes tender to be specifically built for that purpose, she was built in 1874 by Neafie & Levy [1] and placed into commission at Detroit, Michigan. The ship was refitted in 1881, and again in 1891.

Neafie & Levy

Neafie, Levy & Co., commonly known as Neafie & Levy, was a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania shipbuilding and engineering firm that existed from the middle of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. Described as America's "first specialist marine engineers", Neafie & Levy was probably the first company in the United States to combine the building of iron ships with the manufacture of steam engines to power them. The company was also the largest supplier of screw propellers to other North American shipbuilding firms in its early years, and at its peak in the early 1870s was Philadelphia's busiest and most heavily capitalized shipbuilder.

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On 5 November 1907 while docked at Milwaukee she was struck by Christopher receiving $450 in damage. [3] On 5 May 1909 she was sold to E. W. Seymour, of Chicago, and rebuilt as passenger and freight carrier, and rechristened Flora M. Hill on 12 May 1910, [1] under which name she served as a ferry between Chicago and Green Bay. The ship became stuck in heavy ice on 11 March 1912, while attempting to enter Chicago Harbor; after her passengers were unloaded, she was allowed to sink to the bottom, where her remains were seen as a shipping hazard and dynamited.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Collection". www.greatlakesships.org. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  2. ↑ "University of Detroit Mercy - Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection". www.dalnet.lib.mi.us. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  3. ↑ "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general Steamboat-inspection Service, Year ending June 30, 1908". Harvard University. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

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Coordinates: 41°54′28″N87°35′6″W / 41.90778°N 87.58500°W / 41.90778; -87.58500

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