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US Navy · Steamers

Marigold II ScStr

(ScStr: dp. 696; 1. 160'; b. 27'; dr. 11' (mean) s. 10 k. : cpl. 31.)

The second Marigold, a lighthouse tender built at Wyandotte, Wis., in 1891, was transferred to the U.S. Navy with the entire Lighthouse Service by Executive order 11 April 1917. The iron-hull tender operated on the Great Lakes as a naval vessel until 1 July 1919, when she was returned to the custody of the Commerce Department.

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