.jpg) USRC Grant
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Namesake | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Builder | Pusey and Jones Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Cost | $92,500 |
| Laid down | 1870 |
| Launched | 1871 |
| Decommissioned | 28 November 1906 |
| Stricken | 28 November 1906 |
| Nickname(s) | U. S. Grant |
| Fate | Sold to A. A. Cragin of Seattle for $16 ,300 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Barque-rigged, iron-hulled |
| Displacement | 350 tons |
| Length | 163 ft (49.7 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 6 in (2.9 m)[2] |
| Installed power | Coal[2] |
| Propulsion | One vertical, direct action steam engine, 36.5" diameter × 36" stroke, single screw[1] |
| Sail plan | Bark without Royal Yards[2] |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)[2] |
| Boats & landing craft carried | 3 |
| Complement | 45 |
| Crew | 7 officers, 34 enlisted[2] |
| Armament | 4 × 24-pounder howitzers (before 1893)[2] |
USRC Grant was a rare, three-masted revenue cutter built in 1870 and 1871 by Pusey & Jones Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. She served the United States Revenue Cutter Service in both the Atlantic and Pacific preventing smuggling and protecting shipping. At the outbreak of the War with Spain, she was ordered to cooperate with the Navy 11 April 1898. Throughout the conflict, she patrolled the Pacific coast and was returned to the Treasury Department 15 August 1898. Grant continued to serve the Revenue Cutter Service in the Pacific until sold to A. A. Cragin of Seattle, Washington on 28 November 1906.[3]
- ^ "Revenue Cutter Service". Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times. XL (1401): 18. 20 October 1906.
- ^ a b c d e f "New Revenue Ships". The Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Seattle, Washington. 30 September 1893. p. 5.
- ^ "Grant". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 16 April 2015.