USRC Manning (1898)
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| Name: | USRC Manning |
| Namesake: | Daniel Manning, 37th United States Secretary of the Treasury |
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| Awarded: | 27 June 1895 |
| Builder: | Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts |
| Cost: | $159,951 |
| Completed: | 11 August 1897 |
| Commissioned: | 8 January 1898 to 2 February 1925 |
| Recommissioned: | 7 January 1926 |
| Decommissioned: | 22 May 1930 |
| Fate: | Sold 6 December 1930 |
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| Type: | Revenue cutter |
| Displacement: | 1,150 tons |
| Length: | 205 ft 0 in (62.48 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 0 in (9.75 m) |
| Draft: | 13 ft 9 in (4.19 m) |
| Installed power: | Triple-expansion steam engine, 25 in (0.64 m), 37.5 in (0.95 m), 56.25 in (1.429 m) diameter X 30 in (0.76 m) stroke. 2,181 shp, single screw |
| Sail plan: | originally brigantine |
| Speed: | 17 knots |
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USRC Manning was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service that served from 1898 to 1930, and saw service in the U.S. Navy in the Spanish–American War and World War I.
Designed as a cruising cutter for Bering Sea service, Manning was built by Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts, for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. She was accepted by Captain R.M Clark for the Revenue Cutter Service on 11 August 1897. She commissioned on 8 January 1898 and was assigned cruising grounds along the New England coast. Her lines were those of ancestral clipper cutters, but with a plumb bow instead of the more graceful clipper stem. She was powered by a 2,181 horsepower triple expansion steam engine and utilized a coal fired high pressure boiler which allowed a top speed of 17 knots. The hull was of composite construction with frames placed at two foot intervals with 3/8 inch steel plate and sheathed from her bottom to two feet above the waterline with five inch thick Oregon fir planks. Below the waterline Manning was sheathed in copper and had eleven watertight bulkheads. The composite design was thought at the time better to weather the ice conditions of the Bering Sea. As tensions mounted before the Spanish–American War was declared, she carried a single bow torpedo tube.Manning and her sister ships USRC Gresham, USRC McCulloch, USRC Algonquin, and USRC Onondaga were the last cruising cutters rigged for sail and carried the first electric generators installed on cutters. As a class, they were suitable for scouting, for rendering assistance, and for cruising at moderately long range. So successful was the design that these cutters furnished the general pattern for cutter construction for the ensuing 20 years.
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