U.S.C.G. Tenders Built or Acquired before 1915 (WAGL)
This table lists those tenders and other service vessels that were built for or acquired by the various agencies that were brought together as the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915. It does not include chartered vessels or vessels that were less than 50 feet in length. There are many gaps in the historical data and in some cases a vessel's size is not known or it is not clear whether it was built for the service or acquired from a commercial owner. If you have any additional data or see any errors, please email info@navalmarinearchive.com.
Most recent update: 26 April 2019.
| Name | Built By | Location | LDT | LOA | Built | Acq'd | Disposition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunbeam | Unknown | Unknown | 100 | 1852 | Sold 1870 | ||
| Franklin Pierce (ex-Zendrico) | Unknown | Unknown | 80 | 1853 | Sold 1865 | ||
| Heroine | Unknown | Unknown | 70 | 1853 | Returned 1855 | ||
| Lookout | Doyle & Irwin | Elizabeth City VA | 1853 | 1853 | Sold 1858 | ||
| Spray | Unknown | Unknown | 48 | 1853 | Sold 1879 | ||
| Wave | Unknown | Unknown | 77 | 65 | 1853 | 1853 | Sold 1861 |
| William R. King (ex-The Knight) | Unknown | Unknown | 81 | 1853 | 1853 | Captured by CSA 1861 | |
| Elizabeth | Unknown | Unknown | 1854 | Disposition unknown | |||
| Fairy | Unknown | Unknown | 30 | 1854 | Lost 1854 | ||
| George Steers | Unknown | Unknown | 61 | 63 | 1854 | 1854 | Sold 1861 |
| Pharos (ex-H. H. Talman) | Unknown | Unknown | 1854 | Sold 1908 | |||
| Aiken (ex-Eclipse) | Unknown | Unknown | 83 | 1855 | Captured by CSA 1861 | ||
| Alert (ex-Lookout) | Unknown | Unknown | 1855 | Captured by CSA 1861 | |||
| Bowen | Unknown | Baltimore MD | 75 | 77 | 1853 | 1855 | Lost 1872 |
| Governor Aiken | Unknown | Unknown | 1855 | 1855 | Sold 1858 | ||
| North Wind | Unknown | Unknown | 1855 | Captured by CSA 1861 | |||
| Active | Unknown | Unknown | 1856 | 1856 | Sold 1866 | ||
| Challenge | Unknown | Unknown | 1856 | Later Lamplighter, sold 1862 | |||
| Delaware | Unknown | Unknown | 138 | 1856 | 1856 | Later Wave, sold 1879 | |
| Lenox | Unknown | Unknown | 710 | 1850 | 1856 | Sold 1857 | |
| Vigilant (ex-Mirror) | Unknown | Unknown | 1856 | 1856 | Sold 1866 | ||
| Watchful (ex-Skylark) | Unknown | Unknown | 146 | 1856 | 1856 | Sold 1867 | |
| Howell Cobb | Unknown | New York | 90 | 1857 | 1857 | Captured by CSA 1861 | |
| Firefly | Unknown | Unknown | 85 | 75 | 1852 | Later Jasper, captured by CSA 1861 | |
| Minot | Unknown | Unknown | 60 | 1857 | 1857 | Sold 1860 | |
| Ranger | Unknown | Unknown | 77 | 1857 | Sold 1865 | ||
| Shubrick | Philadelphia NSY | Philadelphia PA | 305 | 141 | 1857 | 1857 | Sold 1886 |
| Van Santvoort | Unknown | Unknown | 110 | 100 | 1853 | 1857 | Later Coeur de Lion, sold 1866 |
| Appleton | Page & Allen | Portsmouth VA | 35 | 1858 | 1858 | Wrecked 1861 | |
| Helen | Unknown | Unknown | 1858 | Captured by CSA 1861 | |||
| Granite | Unknown | Unknown | 75 | 1860 | 1860 | Sold 1866 | |
| Chase | Unknown | Unknown | 57 | 1856 | 1861 | Sold 1860 | |
| Martha | Unknown | Unknown | 40 | 1862 | Captured by CSA 1864 | ||
| Belle (ex-Belle Stevens) | Unknown | St. Joseph MI | 115 | 88 | 1863 | 1863 | Sold 1874 |
| Dupont (ex-Anna Deane) | Unknown | Unknown | 1863 | Captured from CSA 1863, sold 1870 | |||
| Cactus (ex-Polar Star) | Unknown | Brooklyn NY | 242 | 141 | 1863 | 1865 | Sold 1909 |
| Chaos | Unknown | Unknown | 57 | 1865 | 1865 | Sold 1866 | |
| General Putnam (ex-Putnam) | Unknown | Brooklyn NY | 1957 | 1865 | Sold 1893 | ||
| Geranium (ex-John A. Dix) | Unknown | Newburgh NY | 356 | 128 | 1863 | 1865 | Sold 1910 |
| Heliotrope (ex-Maggie Baker) | Unknown | Unknown | 239 | 134 | 1863 | 1865 | Sold 1881 |
| Iris (ex-Willet Rowe) | Unknown | Brooklyn NY | 281 | 87 | 1863 | 1865 | Sold 1892 |
| Haze (ex-Merchant) | Henry Mallory | Mystic CT | 328 | 137 | 1867 | Sold 1905 | |
| Narragansett | Unknown | Unknown | 1862 | 1867 | Later Mignonette, lost 1887 | ||
| Sunrise | Unknown | Unknown | 12 | 1867 | 1867 | Sold 1875 | |
| Sunset | Unknown | Unknown | 12 | 1867 | 1867 | Sold 1875 | |
| Susan | Unknown | Unknown | 12 | 1867 | 1867 | Sold 1875 | |
| Maggie | Unknown | Unknown | 95 | 81 | 1868 | Sold 1879 | |
| Tulip (ex-Seymour) | B. C. Terry | Keyport NJ | 169 | 120 | 1860 | 1865 | Sold 1881 |
| Alanthus | Cramp SB | Philadelphia PA | 295 | 135 | 1870 | 1870 | Sold 1882 |
| Verbena | Cramp SB | Philadelphia PA | 295 | 135 | 1870 | 1870 | Sold 1911 |
| General Poe | Birely, Hillman | Philadelphia PA | 231 | 60 | 1870 | 1870 | Unknown |
| Ivy (ex-Commodore) | Unknown | Unknown | 231 | 60 | 1865 | 1870 | Sold 1875 |
| Rose | Unknown | Unknown | 36 | 64 | 1870 | 1870 | Sold 1881 |
| Arbutus (ex-Aaron Wilbur) | B. C. Terry | Keyport NJ | 125 | 1862 | 1871 | Sold 1875 | |
| Magnolia (ex-George E. Smoot) | Unknown | Unknown | 118 | 97 | 1871 | Sold 1882 | |
| Violet (ex-Martha Washington) | Unknown | Elizabethport NJ | 231 | 107 | 1864 | 1871 | Sold 1910 |
| Warrington | J. M. Jones | Detroit MI | 410 | 260 | 1868 | 1870 | Sold 1910 |
| Dandelion (ex-C. W. Thomas) | Unknown | Boston MA | 264 | 132 | 1863 | 1872 | Sold 1878 |
| Mistletoe | Robinson Hoffman | Chester PA | 476 | 137 | 1872 | 1872 | Sold 1922 |
| Myrtle | Birely, Hillman | Philadelphia PA | 542 | 140 | 1872 | 1872 | Sold 1922 |
| Atlantic | Unknown | Unknown | 1873 | 1873 | To Coast Survey | ||
| Daisy (ex-On Time) | Unknown | Unknown | 44 | 91 | 1869 | 1873 | To Coast Survey 1885 |
| Dahlia | Neafie & Levy | Philadelphia PA | 426 | 141 | 1874 | 1874 | Sold 1909 |
| Lily | Unknown | Jeffersonville IN | 507 | 178 | 1875 | 1875 | Wrecked 1911 |
| Laurel | Columbian IW | Baltimore MD | 320 | 134 | 1876 | 1876 | Sold 1909 |
| Pansy | Baird & Huston | Philadelphia PA | 454 | 152 | 1878 | 1878 | Sold 1933 |
| Pink (ex-Louisa) | Unknown | Unknown | 23 | 74 | 1875 | 1878 | Sold 1881 |
| Arbutus | William T. Maister | Baltimore MD | 153 | 1879 | 1879 | Sold 1925 | |
| Nettle | Unknown | New York | 22 | 58 | 1879 | 1879 | Sold 1911 |
| Joseph Henry | Howard's SY | Jeffersonville IN | 453 | 180 | 1880 | 1880 | Sold 1904 |
| Manzanita | H. A. Ramsey | Baltimore MD | 484 | 152 | 1880 | 1880 | Sold 1908 |
| Holly | Maister & Reaney | Baltimore MD | 499 | 156 | 1881 | 1881 | Sold 1931 |
| Jessamine | Maister & Reaney | Baltimore MD | 499 | 156 | 1881 | 1881 | Sold 1922 |
| Ivy (ex-La Belle) | Unknown | Unknown | 48 | 100 | 1880 | 1880 | Sold 1888 |
| Wistaria | Pusey & Jones | Wilmington DE | 450 | 167 | 1882 | 1882 | To USPHS 1911 |
| Grace Darling | Unknown | Unknown | 107 | 92 | 1883 | Later Rose, sold 1899 | |
| John Rodgers | Ward, Stanton | Newburgh NY | 571 | 160 | 1883 | 1883 | Sold 1922 |
| Madroño | John H. Dialogue | Camden NJ | 806 | 180 | 1885 | 1885 | Sold 1927 |
| Gardenia (ex-Beale) | Unknown | East Deering ME | 245 | 117 | 1888 | Sold 1919 | |
| Goldenrod | Sweeney & Bros. | Jeffersonville IN | 283 | 150 | 1888 | 1888 | Sold 1924 |
| Zizania | H. A. Ramsey | Brooklyn NY | 643 | 161 | 1888 | 1888 | Sold 1925 |
| Clover | William McKie | East Boston MA | 440 | 126 | 1889 | 1889 | Sold 1900 |
| Armeria | John H. Dialogue | Camden NJ | 1,052 | 202 | 1890 | 1890 | Wrecked 1912 |
| Marigold | Detroit Dry Dock | Wyandotte MI | 587 | 159 | 1890 | 1890 | Sold 1946 |
| Thistle (ex-Cynthia) | John C. Froelich | Baltimore MD | 32 | 60 | 1890 | 1890 | Sold 1912 |
| Azalea | Johnson Foundry | New York | 516 | 154 | 1891 | 1891 | Sold 1933 |
| Laurel | Unknown | Baltimore MD | 312 | 134 | 1891 | 1891 | Sold 1898 |
| Amaranth | Cleveland SB | Cleveland OH | 1,125 | 166 | 1892 | 1892 | Sold 1946 |
| Columbine | Globe IW | Cleveland OH | 643 | 155 | 1892 | 1892 | Sold 1927 |
| Lilac | Globe IW | Cleveland OH | 643 | 155 | 1892 | 1892 | Sold 1925 |
| Maple | Moore & Sons | Elizabethport NJ | 799 | 164 | 1893 | 1893 | Sold 1933 |
| Leal | Unknown | New York NY | 5 | 25 | 1894 | 1894 | Sold 1907 |
| Daisy (ex-Genevieve) | Edward Clark | New Bedford MA | 84 | 54 | 1872 | 1895 | Sold 1928 |
| Water Lily | Gas Engine & Power | Morris Heights NY | 39 | 69 | 1895 | 1895 | Sold 1929 |
| Snowdrop | Gas Engine & Power | Morris Heights NY | 39 | 69 | 1897 | 1897 | Sold 1924 |
| Mangrove | Crescent SY | Elizabethport NJ | 821 | 164 | 1897 | 1897 | Scrapped 1947 |
| Mayflower | Bath Iron Works | Bath ME | 650 | 164 | 1897 | 1897 | Later Hydrangea, sold 1945 |
| Iris (ex-Plymouth) | Neafie & Levy | Philadelphia PA | 606 | 153 | 1897 | 1899 | Sold 1934 |