USRC Grant (1871)
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USRC Grant
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| Namesake: | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Builder: | Pusey and Jones Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware |
| Cost: | $92,500 |
| Laid down: | 1870 |
| Launched: | 1871 |
| Decommissioned: | 28 November 1906 |
| Struck: | 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' |
| Beam: | 25' |
| Draught: | 9' 6" |
| Draft: | 11' 4" |
| Installed power: | Coal |
| Propulsion: | One vertical, direct action steam engine, 36.5" diameter × 36" stroke, single screw |
| Sail plan: | Bark without Royal Yards |
| Speed: | 11 kn (13 mph; 20 km/h) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
3 |
| Complement: | 45 |
| Crew: | 7 Officers, 34 Enlisted |
| Armament: | 4 x 24 Pounder Howitzers (before 1893) |
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.
United States Revenue Cutter Grant, often referred to as the U. S. Grant, was an iron-hulled vessel built for the Revenue Cutter Service in 1870-1871, one of the few three-masted cutters ever in service. She was constructed by the Pusey and Jones Corporation at a cost of $92,500.
The cutter entered service on 19 January 1872, was assigned to the New York station, with Revenue Captain George R. Slicer, in command. For the next two decades, Grant operated off the east coast from Block Island Sound to the mouth of the Delaware River.
On 23 May 1874, Grant helped ferry the Grant-Satoris wedding party, including the ship's namesake President Ulysses S. Grant, from West 24th Street in New York City to the SS Baltic, on which the newly married couple travelled to England.
In the summer of 1877, Grant was the host ship for United States Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman's three week tour of lighthouses, life saving and Coast Survey services. Also on board was Webb C. Hayes, who was then serving as secretary for his father, President Rutherford B. Hayes. During this tour, the cutter rammed and sank the schooner Dom Pedro off Boon Island, with no loss of life.
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