Lighthouse Tender Steamer Model STL

A small steamer built to service lighthouses and navigation buoys. The hull has a single row of portholes, and the deckhouse amidships carries a banded funnel, two lifeboats on davits and a raised bridge. A foremast stands at the bow, while the mainmast aft carries a long derrick boom used to lift a large bell-shaped buoy that sits on the after deck. Tenders like this supplied lighthouses and lightships with stores, fuel and relief keepers, and lifted, cleaned and replaced buoys around the coas…

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