Dandelion (Lighthouse/Buoy tender, ?-1929)

Date

• November 1925

Summary

• BOAT DESCRIPTION: Sternwheel
• BOAT TYPE: Lighthouse/Buoy tender
• BUILT: 1893 at Rock Island, Illinois as the rafter F. Weyerhaeuser
• FORMERLY: F. Weyerhaeuser
• FINAL DISPOSITION: Collided with the towboat Herbert Hoover at Cairo, Illinois in February 1929 and was lost
• OWNERS: U.S. Lighthouse Service; John K. Klein (1927)
• OFFICERS & CREW: Captain Perry Ruby (master, prior to 1927)
• RIVERS: Mississippi River
• OTHER INFORMATION: Ways - 1438; Used on the Upper Mississippi and sold at Rock Island, Illinois in October 1927
• PHOTO DESCRIPTION: The Dandelion docked in to dry dock November 6 and docked out November 9. Repair work done included: cutting out rotten planking, repairing damage done by ice at Le Claire and fixing rudders. In the foreground are barges 289 and 305 which were both condemned and being broken up. A new barge, number 650, is partly built but work has been stopped on it. The snow on the ground is from the blizzard of November 7, 1925