USRC Pawtuxet
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | USRC Pawtuxet |
| Namesake: | A river and village in Rhode Island |
| Operator: | United States Revenue Cutter Service |
| Builder: | Thomas Stack (New York) |
| Cost: | $103,000 |
| Launched: | 7 Jul 1863 |
| Commissioned: | 1864–May? 1867 |
| 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 |
| Armament: | |
USRC Pawtuxet was a Pawtuxet-class screw steam revenue cutter built for the United States Revenue Marine during the American Civil War.
Pawtuxet appears to have spent her brief career with the Revenue Marine working in and around Massachusetts and Rhode Island. After less than three years as a revenue cutter, she was sold in 1867 due to dissatisfaction with her machinery, and earmarked for merchant service in China. Nothing further is known of her career.
Pawtuxet was one of six Pawtuxet-class screw schooners ordered by the Treasury Department in 1863 for the United States Revenue Marine. The lead ship in her class, she was built in New York by Thomas Stack for the sum of $103,000, and launched on 7 July 1863.
Pawtuxet was 130 feet (40 m) long, with a beam of 26 feet 6 inches (8.08 m) and both draft and hold depth of 11 feet (3.4 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. Her two-cylinder oscillating engine, built by New York's Novelty Iron Works, drove a single 8-foot (2.4 m) diameter screw propeller.Pawtuxet's speed is unrecorded but was probably similar to the 12 knots achieved by her sister ship USRC Kankakee. She was topsail schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power.
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