Name USS Mistletoe Commissioned April 1917 Displacement 455 tons Length 47 m | Completed 1872 Decommissioned July 1919 Beam 26 ft Weight 462.3 tons | |
The second USS Mistletoe was a wooden lighthouse tender built in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1872.
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
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