United States Lighthouse Service, also known as the Bureau of Lighthouses, was the agency of the United States Government and the general lighthouse authority...

predecessors, the United States Lighthouse Service (1910–1939) and the United States Lighthouse Board (1852–1910). Before the Lighthouse Board was established...

The United States Lighthouse Board was the second agency of the U.S. federal government, under the Department of Treasury, responsible for the construction...

structure was designed by lighthouse engineer Ralph Russell Tinkham and was completed in 1910 by the United States Lighthouse Service for $75,000, including...

rebuilt as a showboat. The Willow was commissioned into the U.S. Lighthouse Service on October 7, 1927. Captain Thomas B. Good prepared her original design...

Guard. In the United States, lighthouses are maintained by the United States Coast Guard, into which the United States Lighthouse Service was merged in...

fuel, mail, and transportation. In the United States, these ships originally served as part of the Lighthouse Service and now are part of the Coast Guard...

near the lighthouse itself. "Stag light" was an unofficial term given to some isolated lighthouses in the United States Lighthouse Service. It meant...

steel-hulled steamship built as a lighthouse tender in 1892. During her career in the United States Lighthouse Service her longest assignments were at Portland...

I and became USS Iris. She returned to her duties with the United States Lighthouse Service in 1919. She was sold in 1939 and became a collier and bulk...

United States, the first lightship was stationed on the shoals, in lieu of a proposal to improve Bald Point Lighthouse. The Bald Point lighthouse, and...

when the United States Lighthouse Service became a part of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939. USC&GS was replaced by NOAAS when the United States Coast and...

The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 175) on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation...

(PDF). Light List. United States Coast Guard. 2012. "Inventory of Historic Lighthouses - Carquinez Strait". National Park Service. Retrieved 2008-02-18...

into the Coast Guard in 1939, as were all vessels in the United States Lighthouse Service. Service in the US Coast Guard meant a pay cut for the sailors...

Panamanian coastal trading vessel in service from 1955 to 1958 USLHT Cedar, a United States Lighthouse Service lighthouse tender in commission in 1917 and...

Minnesota. Blackthorn's preliminary design was completed by the United States Lighthouse Service and the final design was produced by Marine Iron and Shipbuilding...

be a military service and a branch of the armed forces of the United States at all times." In 1939 the United States Lighthouse Service was merged into...

the United States Life-Saving Service (?–1915) Pennant of the United States Lighthouse Service (?–1939) Flag of the Commissioner of Lighthouses (?–1939)...

61833°W / 40.61722; -69.61833 LV-117 was a lightvessel of the United States Lighthouse Service. Launched in 1931, she operated as the Nantucket lightship...

the government: by the Lighthouse Establishment from 1820 to 1852, the Lighthouse Board from 1852 to 1910, the Lighthouse Service from 1910 to 1939, and...

The United States has eight federal uniformed services that commission officers as defined by Title 10 and subsequently structured and organized by Titles...

Guard Lightships & Those of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2012-10-05. United States Coast Guard, Aids to Navigation, (Washington...

United States lightship Buffalo (LV-82) was a lightship built in 1911 for the United States Lighthouse Service and stationed off Point Abino, Ontario,...

USCGC Mayflower, more than one United States Coast Guard ship USLHT Mayflower (1897), a lighthouse tender in the United States Lighthouse Service USS Mayflower, more...

Mayflower was a United States Lighthouse Board, and later United States Lighthouse Service, lighthouse tender transferred to the United States Navy in 1898...

the most photographed lighthouses in the United States. Built by the United States Lighthouse Service in 1910, the lighthouse and some adjacent buildings...

The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives...

Aurelius Hanna (November 3, 1842 – December 21, 1921) was an American lighthouse keeper famous for his heroism. He is the only person in history to have...

United States Coast Guard when the Lighthouse Service was abolished in 1939. Her primary missions with both agencies included maintaining lighthouses...