USLHT Shrub

USLHT Shrub in November 1929
History
United States
Name	F. Mansfield and Sons Co.
Operator	F. Mansfield and Sons Co.
Builder	William G. Abbott Shipbuilding Co.
Launched	12 October 1912
Identification	Official Number 210784
Fate	Sold to the US Navy, 25 May 1917
United States
Name	F. Mansfield and Sons Co., 1917 Mansfield, 1917-1919
Operator	U.S. Navy
Identification	Pennant SP-691 Radio call sign NBUJ Radio call sign NUMV, 1919
Fate	Transferred to US Lighthouse Service, 28 October 1919
United States
Name	Shrub
Operator	U.S. Lighthouse Service, 1919-1939 U.S. Coast Guard, 1939-1947
Commissioned	31 July 1927
Decommissioned	1 July 1947
Identification	Penant WAGL-244 Radio call sign: GVLC, 1922-1932 Radio call sign: WWCC, 1933-1939 Radio call sign: NRWF, 1940-1947
Fate	Sold 29 December 1947
United States
Name	Shrub
Operator	various private companies and individuals
Identification	Official number 210784
Fate	Sunk, 25 January 1963
General characteristics
Tonnage	214 gross register tons
Displacement	436 tons
Length	107 ft (32.6 m) overall
Beam	29 ft (8.8 m)
Draft	7 ft 5 in (2.3 m)
Speed	9.5 knots (10.9 mph; 17.6 km/h)

F. Mansfield and Sons Co. was built in 1912 for use as an oyster boat for a company of the same name. She had a varied career, serving as a U.S. Navy minesweeper in World War I, briefly as F. Mansfield and Sons Co. and then as Mansfield. She was transferred to the U.S Lighthouse Service where she became USLHT Shrub. After the Lighthouse Service was absorbed by the U.S. Coast Guard, she became USCGC Shrub. Shrub left government service in 1947. She was in use as a private yacht when she sank in a storm in the Bahamas in 1963. Her crew drifted to Cuba where they were briefly imprisoned as spies.