USRC Kankakee
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USRC Kankakee |
| Namesake: | Kankakee River |
| Operator: | United States Revenue Cutter Service |
| Builder: | Westervelt & Son |
| Cost: | $103,000 |
| Launched: | 15 Sep 1863 |
| Completed: | Nov? 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 1867, prior to 28 May |
| Renamed: | Kawachi (merchant service) |
| Fate: | Broken up after February 1869 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Pawtuxet-class cutter |
| Displacement: | 350 tons |
| Length: | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft 6 in (8.08 m) |
| Draft: | 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) (aft) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 × two-cylinder oscillating steam engine; single 8 ft (2.4 m) screw |
| Sail plan: | Topsail schooner |
| Speed: | About 12 knots |
| Complement: | 7 × officers, 34 enlisted |
| Armament: | |
USRC Kankakee was a Pawtuxet-class screw steam revenue cutter built for the United States Revenue Marine during the American Civil War.
Kankakee spent most of her brief career with the Revenue Marine operating in and around Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Apart from her normal revenue cutter duties, she was used as a transport for customs officials and later for testing safety apparatus.
After less than three years as a revenue cutter, Kankakee was sold in 1867 due to dissatisfaction with her machinery. Later voyaging to Japan, where she was renamed Kawachi, she was broken up on or after 1869.
Kankakee was one of six Pawtuxet-class screw schooners ordered by the Treasury Department in 1863 for the United States Revenue Marine. She was built in New York City by J. A. Westervelt for the sum of $103,000, and launched on 15 September 1863.
Kankakee was 130 feet (40 m) long, with a beam of 26 feet 6 inches (8.08 m) and hold depth of 11 feet (3.4 m).Draft is uncertain but was probably around 6 feet (1.8 m). Like the other ships of her class, her contract called for a hull of oak, locust and white oak, strengthened with diagonal iron bracing.
Kankakee was powered by a two-cylinder, geared screw, oscillating engine with 36 inch bore, 30-inch stroke and 10-inch steam cut-off, built by J. & R. I. Gray at their New York facility, the Phoenix Iron Works. Steam, at a pressure of about 22 psi, was supplied by a single tubular boiler. The engine drove a single 8-foot diameter, 12-foot pitch screw propeller geared upward at a ratio of 3:1, delivering a speed of about 12 knots.
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