USLHT Columbine (1892)

USLHT Columbine in 1894
History
United States
Name	Columbine
Operator	US Lighthouse Service (1892-1917) US Navy (1917-1919) US Lighthouse Service (1919-1927)
Builder	Globe Iron Works
Launched	August 1892
Identification	Signal letters: GVNP Radio Call sign: NLL (1915)
Fate	Sold, July 1927
United States
Name	Columbine
Owner	Union Shipbuilding Co.
Identification	Official Number 227053 Signal Letters WQBF
Fate	Likely scrapped in 1942
General characteristics
Displacement	643 tons, fully loaded
Length	155 ft (47 m)
Beam	26 ft 6 in (8.08 m)
Draft	12 ft 3 in (3.73 m), fully loaded
Depth of hold	12 ft 4 in (3.76 m)
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	5 officers, 16 men in 1909

USLHT Columbine was a steel-hulled steamship built as a lighthouse tender in 1892. During her career in the United States Lighthouse Service she was based in Portland, Oregon, Ketchikan, Alaska, Honolulu, Hawaii, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Baltimore, Maryland. During World War I she was transferred to the United States Navy and became USS Columbine. She returned to the Lighthouse Service in 1919. The ship was decommissioned and sold by the in 1927.

The Union Shipbuilding Company of Baltimore, Maryland bought Columbine from the Lighthouse Service. It used her in its ship breaking business. During her career with Union Shipbuilding, she towed nearly 200 ships, including battleships, ocean liners, and freighters to Baltimore for scrapping. She was likely scrapped herself in 1942.