USRC Levi Woodbury
USRC Levi Woodbury
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| History | |
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| Name: | USRC Levi Woodbury |
| Namesake: | Associate Justice Levi Woodbury |
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| Builder: | J. W. Lynn (Philadelphia, PA) |
| Launched: | 29 Jul 1863 |
| Christened: | Mahoning |
| Commissioned: | 18 Jul 1864–18 Jul 1915 |
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| Fate: | Unknown; dropped from shipping registers, 1932 |
| 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: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| 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 |
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USRC Levi Woodbury was a Pawtuxet-class screw steam revenue cutter built for the United States Revenue Cutter Service during the American Civil War. Built in 1863–64, she became one of the longest-serving revenue cutters in the Service's history, and was the oldest active-duty ship in U.S. government service by the end of her 51-year career.
Originally named Mahoning, the ship spent almost her entire career operating off the coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, where through the course of several decades she accumulated an outstanding record for aiding ships in distress. Other highlights of her career included the foiling of a filibuster raid on Cuba in 1869, and participation in the funeral pageant of renowned philanthropist George Peabody. She also briefly served as USS Woodbury in the Spanish–American War.
After her final decommission in 1915, Levi Woodbury was placed into service as the merchant Laksco. She disappears from shipping records in 1932.
Levi Woodbury—originally named Mahoning after a creek and a valley in Pennsylvania—was one of six Pawtuxet-class screw schooners ordered by the Treasury Department in 1863 for the United States Revenue Marine. Mahoning was built in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by J. W. Lynn. Among those aboard for the launch, on the afternoon of Wednesday, 29 July 1863, were "a number of ladies, many officers of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and other invited guests." Mahoning was christened by Miss Rebecca B. Thomas, daughter of Philadelphia's Collector of Ports, Colonel W. B. Thomas.
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