USLHT Shubrick (1865)

USLHT "Shubrick" was the first lighthouse tender steamer constructed by the Lighthouse Board. [cite web | title =Lighthouse Tenders of the United States| publisher =National Park Service| url =http://www.nps.gov/history/maritime/lhtendersmore.htm| accessdate =2008-01-06] She was transferred from the Lighthouse Board to the Revenue Center Service at San Francisco, California, on 23 August 1861. She operated as a revenue cutter primarily in the Puget Sound area.

Civil War service with the Navy

On 15 February 1865, "Shubrick" was transferred to the Navy Department for 90 days for special service in the Bering Strait supporting survey operations conducted by a Col. Charles S. Buckley, the agent of the Russian Telegraph Co.

No records of "Shubrick"'s naval service have survived, but she was returned by the Revenue Cutter Service to the Lighthouse Board on 24 December 1866.

References

External links

* [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s12/shubrick-i.htm history.navy.mil: USS "Shubrick"]
* [http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Shubrick_1857.html uscg.mil/history/: "Shubrick", 1857]