Fern, 1915
Any of numerous flowerless, seedless, vascular plants of the class Filicinae, having fronds with divided leaflets and reproducing by spores.
Builder: Hall Brothers SB Company, Winslow, Washington
Length: 112'
Beam: 22'
Draft: 10'
Displacement: 317 tons
Cost: $62,100
Commissioned: 25 June 1915
Decommissioned: 1934
Disposition: Sold, 19 September 1934
Machinery: 1 triple-expansion vertical inverted steam engine; 1 water tube, oil-fired Almy-type boiler; single propeller
Performance & Endurance:
Max:
Cruising:
Deck Gear: Wood derrick, steam-powered winch
Complement: 12 - 19
Armament: None
Electronics: None (radio?)
Tender History:
The Fern was a bay and sound tender built for service in the northwest. She entered commissioned service in 1915 and was assigned to the 16th Lighthouse District out of Ketchikan, Alaska.
She was decommissioned and sold in 1934. She apparently was used as a fishing trawler as late as 1981.
Sources:
Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.