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While assigned to the District Inspector, providing supplies and maintaining buoys were Warrington's main missions. In 1890, for example, Warrington delivered 285 tons of coal, 25 cords of wood, and 9,625 gallons of lamp oil, plus food, fresh water, and other provisions to 95 lighthouses and fog signals. That same year she serviced 132 buoys. [42]
USCGC Ironwood (WAGL-297/WLB-297) is a former Mesquite-class sea-going buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard.She served in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War as well as a variety of domestic missions.
USCGC Bramble (WLB-392) is one of the 39 original 180-foot (55 m) seagoing buoy tenders built between 1942 and 1944 for the United States Coast Guard.In commission from 1944 until 2003 she saw service in Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic waters as well as the Great Lakes.
21 225' Juniper-class Seagoing Buoy Tenders (WLB) 22 213' Medium Endurance Cutter ... 42 165' Algonquin-class patrol boat (WPG) 43 165' Thetis-class patrol boat (WPC)
Mesquite picked up 25 of her buoys and headed to Lake Superior to pick up Sundew's. She retrieved at least 35 before she pulled the light buoy which marked the shoal off Keweenaw Point. [42] With the buoy aboard, she got underway. At approximately 2:10 am on December 4, 1989 she ran onto the shoal and went aground.
Electrical power aboard is provided by three Caterpillar 3406 DITA generators which produce 285 Kw each. [7] She also has a 210 Kw emergency generator, which is a Caterpillar 3406 DIT. [9] The buoy deck has 1,335 square feet (124.0 m 2) of working area. A crane with a boom 42 feet (13 m) long lifts buoys and their mooring anchors onto the deck.
The Iris-class buoy tenders were constructed after the Mesquite-class buoy tenders. Hornbeam cost $864,296 to construct and had an overall length of 180 feet (55 m). She had a beam of 37 feet (11 m) and a draft of up to 12 feet (3.7 m) at the time of construction, although this was increased to 14 feet 7 inches (4.45 m) in 1966.
Her buoy tending chores were complicated by winter sea ice along the New England coast. Ice would damage or sink large iron buoys, so every fall Arbutus would replace threatened nuns, cans, and bell buoys with wooden spar buoys. [17] In the spring she would have to reverse the process and put all the metal buoys back in place.