USCGC Hemlock
USLHT Hemlock in 1934 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States Lighthouse Service | |
| Name | USLHT Hemlock |
| Builder | Berg Shipbuilding Company |
| Cost | $228,480 |
| Launched | 20 January 1934 |
| Home port | Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Identification | Radio call sign: KCBK |
| Fate | transferred to the United States Coast Guard |
| United States Coast Guard | |
| Name | USCGC Hemlock |
| Acquired | 1 July 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 17 June 1958 |
| Home port | Ketchikan, Alaska |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sold, August 2, 1961 |
| General characteristics as built in 1934 | |
| Displacement | 960 tons, fully loaded |
| Length | 174.6 ft (53.2 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 13.25 ft (4.04 m) |
| Installed power | 1,000 bhp (750 kW) |
| Propulsion | 2 screws |
| Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Range | 1,836 miles (2,955 km) |
USLHT Hemlock was a lighthouse tender built for the United States Lighthouse Service in 1934. She spent her entire government career stationed at Ketchikan, Alaska. Her primary missions were maintaining aids to navigation, and search and rescue. The Lighthouse Service was absorbed into the United States Coast Guard in 1939 and she became USCGC Hemlock (WAGL-217). During World War II, the Coast Guard came under U.S. Navy control and Hemlock was armed. She took on a number of military missions, but never saw combat. After the war she returned to her peacetime missions.
Hemlock was decommissioned in 1958, and sold in 1961. In 1965 her engines were removed and she was converted into a floating shrimp cannery. Renamed Pacific Pride, the processing barge was towed to Kodiak, Alaska where she worked for several years. Her ultimate fate is unknown.