USS Locust (1910) was a tugboat

Tugboat

A tugboat is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal,or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for...

 built for the United States Navy

United States Navy

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 in 1910 and served on the U.S. West Coast for several years towing coal barges from Tiburon, California

Tiburon, California

Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. It occupies most of the Tiburon Peninsula, which reaches south into the San Francisco Bay. The smaller city of Belvedere occupies the south-east part of the peninsula and is contiguous with Tiburon...

 to naval activities where the coal was needed.

Built in Tacoma, Washington

The first ship to be so named by the Navy, Locust — a wooden tug — was built for the Navy by Crawford & Reid

Crawford and Reid (shipbuilders)

The firm of Crawford and Reid was a ship building company that had a shipyard at Tacoma Washington in the first half of the 1900s. Vessels constructed by the yard included the passenger steamships Daring, Dix, Monticello 2, the sternwheeler S.G. Simpson, and the steam tugs Echo and USS Locust...

.Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

, and placed in service on 5 April 1910.

Collier service

Attached to the Naval Coal Depot, Tiburon, California, the tugboat served at that place, towing coal barges to naval installations along the northwest Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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 coast.

Decommissioning

Locust was struck from the Naval Vessel Register

Naval Vessel Register

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on 6 January 1912 and sold.