USLHT Cedar

USCGC Cedar (WAGL-207) at Seattle, Washington on 13 May 1944.
History
United States Lighthouse Service
Name	USLHT Cedar
Namesake	Cedar, a fragrant evergreen of the pine family
Builder	Craig Shipbuilding Company, Long Beach, California
Laid down	1916
Completed	1917
Commissioned	30 June 1917
Identification	code letters: WWDO[1]
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Navy August 1917
Acquired	1 July 1919 (from U.S. Navy)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Coast Guard 1 July 1939
United States Navy
Name	USS Cedar
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	August 1917 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service)
Fate	Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service 1 July 1919
United States Coast Guard
Name	USCGC Cedar (WAGL-207)
Namesake	Previous name retained
Acquired	1 July 1939 (from U.S. Lighthouse Service)
Decommissioned	29 June 1950
Reclassified	WAGL-207
Fate	Sold for scrapping 27 June 1955
General characteristics
Type	Lighthouse tender
Displacement	1,970 long tons (2,002 t) 1919: 1,245 long tons (1,265 t)
Length	200 ft 8 in (61.2 m) (overall) 188 ft (57.3 m) (between perpendiculars)
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.1 m)
Draft	13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) 1919: 18 ft 5 in (5.61 m)
Propulsion	Two Scotch marine boilers, one 1,455-ihp (1,230-kW) California Shipbuilding triple-expansion reciprocating vertical inverted steam engine, one shaft
Speed	8 knots
Complement	29 1919: 32
Armament	As built: None; 1943: 1 x 20 mm mount; 1 x depth charge track 1945: 2 x 20 mm mounts; 2 x depth charge tracks

USLHT Cedar was a lighthouse tender in commission in the fleet of the United States Lighthouse Service in 1917 and from 1919 to 1939, and – as USCGC Cedar (WAGL-207) – in the fleet of the United States Coast Guard from 1939 to 1950. She was in commissioned service in the United States Navy as the patrol vessel USS Cedar from 1917 to 1919 during and in the immediate aftermath of World War I. She also saw service in World War II under U.S. Navy control while in the Coast Guard fleet. She spent her career in the Pacific Northwest and the Territory of Alaska.