By STEVE HATHCOCK
Lighthouse Tender Pansy arrived at Brazos this morning.
(The Daily Cosmopolitan (Brownsville, TX.) June 1, 1885)
Editor’s Note: The United States Lighthouse Tender Pansy Launched in 1877, Pansy was first assigned to the Eighth Lighthouse District to replace the aging Tender Dandelion. In 1904 she was transferred to Puerto Rico where she remained until October 1907. She was then transferred to the Third Lighthouse District where she sailed out of Staten Island, New York.
Pansy remained in service until she was sold to a private party in 1933. After being rebuilt in 1941, she was charted by the Navy from her private owners for Coast Guard use on 8 May 1942 “to be employed as a unit of the Maritime Service with station at Hoffman Island, N.Y.” The Coast Guard retained her civilian name, Mayfair.
Returned to her private owners after the war, she remained in service as a passenger excursion vessel into the early 1980s.
Comments