USS Mistletoe (1861) [SEP] conflict
USS Mistletoe (1861)
USS "Mistletoe" (1861) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was planned by the Union Navy for use as a tugboat whose task it was to tow other ships or to free them when they became stuck or otherwise inoperable.
"Mistletoe", a small steam tug, was built as "Restless" at St. Louis, Missouri, in 1861; purchased by the U.S. War Department early in the Civil War for service in the Western
USS Mistletoe (WAGL-237)
The third USS "Mistletoe", originally designed for duty with the Lighthouse Service as a buoy tender, was built in 1939 by the Marine Iron & Shipbuilding Company, Duluth, Minnesota. As the Lighthouse Service became part of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1939, "Mistletoe" commissioned as a Coast Guard coastal buoy tender.
Service history.
"Mistletoe"'s prewar operations were out of Gloucester, New Jersey and Portsmouth, Virginia. She transferred to the U.S. Navy 1 November 1941