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USCGC Lilac (WLM 227)



Call sign:
November - Romeo - Whiskey - November

ex-USCGC Lilac (WAGL 227)
ex-USCGC Lilac

Lighthouse Tender:

  • Built in 1933 by Pusey & Jones Company, Wilmington, Delaware
  • Launched 26 May 1933
  • Commissioned in 1933 as USCGC Lilac
  • Designated WAGL-227 in 1942
  • Later reclassified as WLM-227
  • Decommissioned 3 February 1972
  • Donated 6 June 1972 to the Harry Lundeberg Seafarers International Union Seamanship School, Piney Point, Maryland
  • As of 2017 she is now a museum ship owned and operated by the non-profit Lilac Preservation Project in New York City
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 799 t.
  • Length 173' 4"
  • Beam 34'
  • Draft 11'
  • Speed 11 kts.
  • Complement 38
  • Armament: One 3"/50 mount, two 20mm mounts and two depth charge tracks (World War II). None during peace time
  • Propulsion: Two Babcock and Wilcox watertube boilers, two 500shp triple-expansion steam engines, shafts.
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    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    Lilac 180k c. 2003
    Lilac Preservation Project photo from U.S. Lighthouse Society website    		 John Spivey
    Lilac 145k 28 April 2017
    Docked at Pier 25 near the south end of Hudson River Park, on the west side of West Street at North Moore Street north of Chambers Street in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan
    Photo by Godsfriendchuck    		 Robert Hurst
    Photo added 13 March 2022
    Lilac 185k 9 June 2018
    Docked at Pier 25 near the south end of Hudson River Park, on the west side of West Street at North Moore Street north of Chambers Street in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan
    Photo by Tdorante10
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    Coast Guard history entry located on the USCG Historian's Office website
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