USS Zizania (1888)


Career (United States)
Name: USS Zizania
Namesake: Zizania, a wild rice native to North America (previous name retained)
Completed: 1888
Acquired: 1917
Struck: 1 July 1919
Fate: Returned to U.S. Department of Commerce 1 July 1919
Notes: Served as lighthouse tender in United States Lighthouse Service 1888-1917 and 1919-1925
General characteristics
Type: patrol boat tender
Displacement: 575 tons
Length: 161 ft 0 in (49.07 m)
Beam: 27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
Draft: 12 ft 0 in (3.66 m) mean
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 27
Recommissioned: 26 August 1943
Decommissioned: 17 April 1946
Renamed: USS Adario (YNT-25)
Reclassified: YTM-743, 4 August 1945
Struck: 1 May 1946
Fate: Transferred to Maritime Commission's War Shipping Administration for final disposition.

USS Zizania was a patrol craft tender that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919 and again as USS Adario from 1943 to 1946.

Zizania was built in 1888 at Baltimore, Maryland, as a lighthouse tender for the United States Lighthouse Service.