Lookout, 1919

Feb. 7, 2021
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Lookout, 1919

(AB-7)


Built: E.S. Thibault, Jacksonville, FL

Cost:  Unknown

Machinery: Gasoline engine

Speed: 10 knots

Length: 41'

Beam: 10

Draft: 2' 3"

Displacement: 12 tons

Launched: 1915

Acquired: 4 September 1919

Commissioned: Unknown

Disposition: Sold 19 September 1933

Complement: 2

Armament: 1 1-pdr. (USN)


Cutter History:

This motorboat was originally Miss Anne II and was known as SP-657 during World War I. She was used for communication cable work in the North Carolina sounds. Re-named Lookout on 16 December 1919 and AB-7 on 6 November 1923, she was stationed at Charleston, SC after July 1924.


Sources:

Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935.  Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.

U.S. Coast Guard.  Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933.  Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).