USRC Kewanee
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USRC Kewanee |
| Namesake: | Kewanee, Illinois |
| Owner: | United States Revenue Cutter Service |
| Builder: | J. A. Robb & Co. (Baltimore, MD) |
| Launched: | 23 Sep 1863 |
| Commissioned: | 15 Aug 1864 |
| Decommissioned: | 1867 |
| In service: | 15 Aug 1864–1869 |
| Renamed: | Musashi (after 1867 sale) |
| Fate: | Sold, 10 July 1867; exploded at Yokohama, 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 Kewanee was a Pawtuxet-class screw steam revenue cutter built for the United States Revenue Marine during the American Civil War.
Commissioned in August 1864, Kewanee served out the last eight months of the war on convoy and patrol duty along the East Coast of the United States. In the postwar period, she participated in the usual duties of a revenue cutter, including patrolling for contraband and aiding vessels in distress.
Due to dissatisfaction with her machinery, Kewanee was sold into merchant service after less than three years in the Revenue Marine. Renamed Musashi, she was sent to Japan, where she was destroyed by an explosion in 1869.
Kewanee, one of six Pawtuxet-class screw schooners ordered in 1863 for the United States Revenue Marine, was built in Baltimore, Maryland by J. A. Robb & Company. She was launched from the builder's yard at Fell's Point on 23 August 1863. A banquet in honor of the event was held the same evening at Guy's Monument House, attended "by many of the military and civic dignitaries of the city."
Kewanee 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). Her contract, like the other ships of the class, called for a hull of oak, locust and white oak, strengthened with diagonal iron bracing. She was powered by a pair of oscillating engines, driving a single 8-foot (2.4 m) diameter screw propeller. Her speed is unrecorded but was probably similar to the 12 knots achieved by her sister ship USRC Kankakee.Kewanee was topsail schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power.
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