Leader, 1919
Built: Boothbay Harbor, ME
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Gasoline engine
Speed: Unknown
Length: 73'
Beam: Unknown
Draft: 6' 3"
Displacement: 29 tons
Launched: 1913
Acquired: June 1919
Commissioned: Unknown
Disposition: Burned 2 April 1920
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown
Cutter History:
Formerly the motorboat Admiral and a Navy section patrol boat (SP-541), this vessel was stationed at Portsmouth, NH. Her name was changed to Leader on 16 December 1919. The vessel was accidentally destroyed in a gasoline tank explosion.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).