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Manzanita

A former name retained.

(ScStr: t. 677; 1. 190'; b. 30'; dr. 1017"; s. 13 k.; cpl. 25)

Manzanita, a lighthouse tender built at Camden, N.J in 1908, was transferred to the Navy with the entire Lighthouse Service by Executive order 11 April 1917. She was returned to the custody of the Department of Commerce 1 July 1919.

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Tenders in the Pacific Northwest

The first revenue cutter dispatched to the Northwest was the topsail schooner Jefferson Davis, which sailed into Puget Sound on September 28, 1854. The first lighthouse tender to serve the Pacific coast was Shubrick, a wooden-hulled sidewheeler built in Philadelphia in 1857. After arriving on the West Coast, she assisted in the construction of the first lighthouses in Washington Territory. She served double duty as a buoy tender and a revenue cutter, carrying three 12-pound cannons and small arms. Shubrick serviced the entire Pacific coast until 1880, when a second vessel, Manzanita, was assigned the northwest portion and Shubrick continued to serve the lower Pacific coast. As traffic increased in Northwest waters, so did the need for aids to navigation, and Manzanita was joined by Columbine, a U.S. Army Engineers vessel, to help maintain the increasing number of aids. After Manzanita sank in the Columbia River off Warrior Rock, Oregon, a second Manzanita was constructed. 25

When the Coast Guard took over the Lighthouse Service, the 13th District had four tenders in service: Heather, Rose, Manzanita, and Rhododendron. Upon the arrival of Fir, Heather was removed from duty; she was later loaned to the Army for war service and never returned. 26 Two tenders were commissioned and assigned to the 13th Naval District during World War II: Basswood and Bluebell. The tenders performed their regular duties during the war but were equipped with small arms, depth charge racks, and deck guns for protection against enemy submarines.