USLHT Shubrick
Shubrick | |
| History | |
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| United States | |
| Name | Shubrick |
| Builder | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Launched | 8 August 1857 |
| Commissioned | 25 November 1857 (LHS) |
| Decommissioned | 23 August 1861 |
| Recommissioned | 15 October 1861 (RCS) |
| Decommissioned | 24 December 1866 |
| Recommissioned | 24 December 1866 (LHS) |
| Decommissioned | January 1886 |
| Identification | Signal letters G.V.M.L. |
| Fate | Scrapped 1886 |
| General characteristics as built in 1857 | |
| Displacement | 305 long tons (310 t) |
| Length | 140 ft 8 in (42.88 m) |
| Beam | 22 ft 6 in (6.86 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
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USLHT Shubrick was a paddlewheel steamship built for United States Lighthouse Service in 1857. She was the first vessel built specifically as a lighthouse tender, the first steam-propelled lighthouse tender, and the first lighthouse tender on the Pacific Coast of the United States.
As one of the few armed government vessels on the west coast, Shubrick was put to a variety of uses. Most of her years were spent in placing and maintaining buoys, and building and supplying lighthouses. During the Pig War and the American Civil War she had minor military roles. She spent five years as a revenue cutter, enforcing customs regulations. She rescued mariners in distress and provided relief to flood victims.
After thirty years at sea, Shubrick was sold for scrap and broken up at San Francisco in 1886.