Messenger, 1919

Feb. 20, 2021
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Messenger, 1919

(AB-8)


Built: Smith-Williams, Salisbury, MD

Cost:  Unknown

Machinery: Gasoline engine

Speed: 12 knots

Length: 60'

Beam: 13'

Draft: 2' 9"

Displacement: 12 tons

Launched: 1916

Acquired: 19 December 1919

Commissioned: Unknown

Disposition: February 1931

Complement: 4

Armament: 1 1-pdr. (USN)


Cutter History:

This motorboat was originally Marguerite and designated SP-193 during World War I. She was stationed at Mobile, AL in the Gulf Division and re-named AB-8 on 6 November 1923.


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).