USLHT Mangrove information

Mangrove in 1898 during the Spanish–American War.
History
United States Lighthouse Board
Name	USLHT Mangrove
Namesake	Mangrove, a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water
Builder	Crescent Shipyard, Elizabethport, New Jersey
Cost	$74,997.63
Completed	1897
Commissioned	1 December 1897
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy 10 April 1898
Acquired	18 August 1898 (from U.S. Navy)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service 1910
United States
Name	USS Mangrove
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	10 April 1898 (from U.S. Lighthouse Board)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Board 18 August 1898
Acquired	11 April 1917 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service 1 July 1919
Acquired	1 November 1941 (from U.S. Coast Guard)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1 January 1946
United States Lighthouse Service
Name	USLHT Mangrove
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	1910 (from U.S. Lighthouse Board)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy 11 April 1917
Acquired	1 July 1919 (from U.S. Navy)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1 July 1939
United States Coast Guard
Name	USCGC Mangrove (WAGL-232)
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	1 July 1939 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service)
Reclassified	WAGL-232
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy 1 November 1941
Acquired	1 January 1946 (from U.S. Navy)
Decommissioned	22 August 1946
Fate	Sold for scrapping 6 May 1947
General characteristics
Type	Lighthouse tender
Displacement	1897: 821 long tons (834 t) 1919: 572 long tons (581 t)
Length	164 ft (50.0 m) (overall)
Beam	30 ft (9.1 m)
Draft	1897: 8 ft 6 in (2.6 m) 1919: 12 ft (3.7 m)
Propulsion	1897: Two coal-fired Page and Burton water-tube boilers, two 650-shp (550-kW) compound inverted reciprocating steam engines, two shafts 1919: 550 ihp (465 kW)
Speed	10 knots
Complement	1897: 31 1919: 29 1945: 40
Armament	1898: 2 × quick-firing guns (during U.S. Navy service) 1945: 2 x 20 mm mounts (during U.S. Navy service)

USLHT Mangrove was a lighthouse tender in commission in the fleet of the United States Lighthouse Board from December 1897 to April 1898 and from August 1898 to 1910, in the United States Lighthouse Service from 1910 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1939, and in the United States Coast Guard (as USCGC Mangrove) from 1939 to 1941 and in 1946. She also saw commissioned service in the United States Navy as USS Mangrove on three occasions, operating as an armed supply ship from April to August 1898 during the Spanish–American War, during which she fought the last battle of that war; as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919 during and in the aftermath of World War I; and as a buoy tender from 1941 to 1946 during and in the aftermath of World War II.