&sq=&lang=&file=File:USLHT_Arbutus_(1879_ship).jpg) USLHT Arbutus
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| Name | USLHT Arbutus |
| Operator | United States Lighthouse Service |
| Builder | Malster and Reaney Company |
| Cost | $49,769 |
| Launched | 1 July 1879 |
| Identification | Signal Letters: GVMT |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Navy |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_the_United_States_(1912-1959).svg){kind=small} United States | |
| Name | USS Arbutus |
| Operator | United States Navy |
| Acquired | 11 April 1917 |
| Identification | Signal letters: NAGM |
| Fate | Transferred to U.S. Lighthouse Service |
| History | |
| United States | |
| Name | USLHT Arbutus |
| Operator | United States Lighthouse Service |
| Acquired | 1 July 1919 |
| Decommissioned | 1925 |
| Identification | Signal Letters: GVMT |
| Fate | Sold at auction |
| United States | |
| Name | Arbutus |
| Operator | Union Shipbuilding Company |
| Acquired | 1925 |
| Identification | Signal Letters: MGBC, KJBR Official Number: 225246 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1935 |
| General characteristics as built in 1879 | |
| Displacement | 545 tons fully loaded |
| Length | 150 ft (46 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Installed power | 2 steam engines |
USLHT Arbutus was a wooden-hulled, steam-powered lighthouse tender built for the United States Lighthouse Board in 1879. She served on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in this role until 1925. During World War I, she was transferred to the United States Navy and was commissioned as USS Arbutus, but her duties largely remained those of a lighthouse tender.
She was sold in 1925 and became a workboat for Union Shipbuilding Company, which used her to salvage steel ships which were recycled in the company's shipyard. She was likely scrapped in 1935.