Ship Model, U.S. Lighthouse Service Tender, <I>Greenbrier</I>
date: label: Date made
content: 1962
notes: label: Description
content: Built in 1924 in Charleston, West Virginia, the <I>Greenbrier</I> was meant to replace the <I>Goldenrod</I> (built in 1888) as a lighthouse tender on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. Although the plans for the <I>Greenbrier</I> were originally authorized in 1917, the ship’s contract was delayed twice. Finally, in September 1922 the keel for the 164-foot <I>Greenbrier</I> keel was laid.
label: Description
content: As part of the Lighthouse Service, tenders performed a variety of tasks. Their main work was to attend to the needs of American lighthouses and navigational buoys. Sometimes this entailed the provision of supplies, fuel, mail and transportation to remote coastal lighthouses; other times it meant towing a lightship (or floating lighthouse) into a bay or harbor.
label: Description
content: Lighthouse tenders were designed to work in a specific service region. Because the <I>Greenbrier</I> was built to aid lighthouses along the inland rivers, its design was similar to shallow-draft Mississippi River steamboats. The <I>Greenbrier</I> had two main steam engines, three coal-fired boilers and a stern paddle wheel. Like all vessels in the service, it flew the triangular Lighthouse Service flag, and had a polished brass, miniature lighthouse affixed to its bow, for ease of identification.
label: Description
content: The <I>Greenbrier</I> serviced the Ohio, Kanawha and upper Mississippi Rivers until September 1947. After its sale in April 1948, the <I>Greenbrier’</I>s name was changed to <I>Mississippi</I>; it worked as a private river boat until 1975.
label: Description
content: This model was built by Arthur G. Henning, Inc.
topic: label: related event
content: The Emergence of Modern America
label: related event
content: The Great Depression and World War II
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Work
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content: On the Water exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: On the Water
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: National Museum of American History. On the Water exhibition website
label: Related Web Publication
content: http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthewater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.320154
label: catalog number
content: 320154
label: accession number
content: 241746
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ship
label: Object Name
content: ship model
label: Object Name
content: model, ship
label: Other Terms
content: ship; Maritime; Lighthouse Tender
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 46 in x 9 in; 35.56 cm x 116.84 cm x 22.86 cm