USLHT Shubrick

This article is about the US Navy lighthouse tender. For other ships with the same name, see USS Shubrick.

Shubrick
History
United States
NameShubrick
NamesakeWilliam Bradford Shubrick
BuilderPhiladelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Cost$60,000 appropriation; $75,000 (reported)
Commissioned25 November 1857 (LHS)
Decommissioned23 August 1861
Recommissioned15 October 1861 (RCS)
Decommissioned24 December 1866
Recommissioned24 December 1866 (LHS)
DecommissionedJanuary 1886
FateSold, March 1886
General characteristics [1]
TypeLighthouse tender
Displacement305 long tons (310 t)
Length140 ft 8 in (42.88 m)
Beam22 ft 6 in (6.86 m)
Draft9 ft (2.7 m)
Propulsion
  • 1 single-expansion "harp & steeple" steam engine
  • 3 furnaces heated by a 12-by-11-foot (3.7 by 3.4 m) boiler
  • 284 bhp (212 kW)
  • 19-foot-diameter (5.8 m) paddle-wheels
Speed
  • 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) cruising
  • 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) maximum
Armament
  • 1 × 24-pounder Dahlgren gun on a swivel carriage
  • 1 × 12-pounder gun

USLHT Shubrick was the first lighthouse tender steamer constructed by the Lighthouse Board.[2]

The ship was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard of "Florida live oak and white oak," left over from the construction of the warship USS Wabash. She was "...topped by a flush deck fore and aft... To better withstand buoys scraping her sides, Shubrick's hull was painted black, topped with a white ribbon and waist. Red paddle wheels, white paddle boxes, and a black bowsprit, yards and gaffs added a saucy touch to her long and graceful cutwater, with six inches of bright copper shining above the waterline."[3]

  1. ^ "U.S. Coast Guard Cutter History". uscg.mil. Retrieved 9 November 2009.
  2. ^ "Lighthouse Tenders of the United States". National Park Service. Retrieved 6 January 2008.
  3. ^ White, Jr., Richard D. (1976). "Saga of the Side-Wheel Steamer Shubrick: Pioneer Lighthouse Tender of the Pacific Coast". American Neptune. XXCVI (1): 47.