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Log Books of the U.S. Revenue Service/Coast Guard, 19th and 20th Centuries USRC Commodore Perry General description, specifications and time line |
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USRC Commodore Perry (USCG Photo, click images to enlarge) |
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(Matthew Perry, 1794-1858, Commodore of US Navy)
Type and Characteristics: Brigantine-rigged steam cutter (above), built by Union Drydock Company, Buffalo, NY at cost of $83,000, iron-hulled, commissioned 29 June 1884, 282 tons displacement, 165ft long x 25ft beam x 11ft 2in draft, direct-acting steam engine, one propeller, armed with 2 guns, crew of 41.
Log Period and Areas of Service: 1884-1910, Lake Erie, East and West Coasts of US, Alaskan waters, Spanish-American war service.
Summary of Service
1884-93 - Assigned to Lake Erie patrol duties. Taken out of commission each winter, around mid-November, and crew released. Put back in commission around May when the shipping season started.
23 September 1893 - Ordered to New York to refit for Pacific. Arrived New York on 20 October, carried out "temporary duties" in local waters.
7 December 1894 - Refit completed, sailed for San Francisco via Straits of Magellan.
1894-1910 - Served off the West coast and in Alaskan waters.
25 April 1895 - Arrived at San Francisco, assigned to Bering Sea Patrol.
9 April 1898 - Served with US Navy during Spanish-American War, reporting to Commandant, Puget Sound Naval Station. Returned to Treasury Department on 15 August.
Fate: 26 July 1910 - Lost in Pribilof Islands, on Tonki Point, St Paul Island. All hands saved and distributed among the fleet. Her wreck was visible for a number of years.
Link: USCG Historian's site
USRC Perry |
36 Officers of the Bering Sea Fleet in 1909 onboard USRC Perry |
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Wreck of USRC Perry, both from scrapbook of E P Bertholf |
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