USLHT Zizania breaking ice |
| History |
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| United States |
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| Name | Zizania |
| Operator |
- US Lighthouse Service (1888-1917)
- US Navy (1917-1919)
- US Lighthouse Service (1919-1925)
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| Builder | H.A. Ramsey and Son |
| Laid down | 2 June 1887 |
| Launched | 17 January 1888 |
| Commissioned | 12 November 1888 |
| Decommissioned | 18 November 1924 |
| Identification |
- Signal Letters GVNK
- Radio Call Sign: NZZ
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| Fate | Sold, January 1925 |
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| Name | Zizania |
| Owner |
- James A. Ross (1925-1939)
- Pan American Shippers (1939-1942)
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| Identification |
- Official Number 225632
- Radio Call Sign MGCR
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| Fate | Requisitioned by War Shipping Administration, 1942 |
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| Name | Adario |
| Recommissioned | 26 August 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 17 April 1946 |
| Reclassified | YTM-743, 4 August 1945 |
| Stricken | 1 May 1946 |
| Identification |
- YNT-25
- Radio call sign NCLE
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| Fate | sold, likely in early 1947, scrapped likely in 1948 |
| General characteristics |
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| Displacement | 643 tons |
| Length | 161 ft (49 m) |
| Beam | 27 ft (8.2 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Depth of hold | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
| Speed | 9.1 knots (16.9 km/h; 10.5 mph) |
| Complement | 5 officers, 16 men |
USLHT Zizania was a steel-hulled steamship built as a lighthouse tender in 1888. Over four decades of government service she sailed for the U.S. Lighthouse Service, and the U.S. Navy. She was homeported first in Wilmington, Delaware, and then in Portland, Maine during her Lighthouse Service Years. She served the U.S. Navy in both World War I and World War II. She was renamed during her World War II service, becoming USS Adario, a net tender based at Naval Operating Base Norfolk.
The ship appears to have been largely inactive between her retirement from the Lighthouse Service in 1925 and her requisition by the War Shipping Administration in 1942. After her World War II service, she was sold by the government and likely scrapped in 1948.
