Dandelion (Lighthouse/Buoy tender, ?-1929)

Date

• April 1921

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: Bow view of the Dandelion in the Keokuk dry dock