USS Narcissus (WAGL-238)

History
United States
Name	USCG Narcissus
Builder	Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation
Laid down	1939
In service	1939
Out of service	Transferred to the Navy, 1 November 1941
In service	1 January 1946
Out of service	1971
Homeport	Portsmouth, Virginia
Fate	Transferred to Guyana, 1971
United States
Name	USS Narcissus
Acquired	Transferred from the Coast Guard, 1 November 1941
Fate	Returned to the Coast Guard, 1 January 1946
General characteristics
Type	Buoy tender
Displacement	342 long tons (347 t)
Length	122 ft (37 m)
Beam	28 ft (8.5 m)
Draft	8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion	2 × Superior diesel engines 2 screws
Speed	10.3 knots (19.1 km/h; 11.9 mph)
Complement	17

USS Narcissus (WAGL-238) was built for the United States Coast Guard by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Corporation, Duluth, Minnesota, in 1939. Designed as a navigational aid tender, she was assigned to Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1940 she transferred to Portsmouth, Virginia.

Executive Order 8929 of 1 November 1941 transferred the Coast Guard to the US Navy. Through the war years Narcissus continued to serve as a large inland buoy tender, operating out of Portsmouth. When the Coast Guard returned to the Treasury Department on 1 January 1946, the tender remained in an active status. Through 1970 she has continued her buoytending duties from her permanent station at Portsmouth.