USS Mayflower (1866)
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  United States
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| Namesake: | A species of shrubs and trees of the arbutus genus with white or pink flowers and scarlet berries. |
| Builder: | James Tetlow, Chelsea, Massachusetts |
| Laid down: | Date unknown |
| Launched: | 1866 |
| Commissioned: | Circa 16 February 1866 at Boston, Massachusetts |
| Decommissioned: | Circa 23 September 1892 |
| Struck: | 23 September 1892 |
| Homeport: | |
| Fate: | Sold 27 December 1893 at Boston, Massachusetts |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 420 tons |
| Length: | 137 ft (42 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m) |
| Propulsion: | Steam engine, screw propelled |
| Speed: | 10.6 knots |
| Complement: | Not known |
| Armament: | Not known |
USS Mayflower (1866) was a screw tugboat acquired by the United States Navy at the end of the American Civil War. She performed a variety of duties, including survey work, along the New England and mid-Atlantic coasts of the United States. On completion of her official duties, she was recommissioned and issued to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, for use as a training ship for midshipmen.
Mayflower -– the first U.S. Navy ship to bear that name -- was a screw tug built for the Navy in 1866 at Chelsea, Massachusetts, by James Tetlow. She got underway from the Boston Navy Yard 16 February 1866 and arrived Norfolk, Virginia, on 21 February.
Laid up in ordinary in the Norfolk Navy Yard until 1870 she sailed for Annapolis, Maryland, 30 September to prepare for service on the expedition to Tehuantepec, Mexico, to survey the isthmus for a possible inter-oceanic canal. The expedition got underway from Hampton Roads, Virginia, 14 October and reached Minatitlan, Mexico, 11 November. After gathering valuable data about the topography of Central America during the winter and spring, Mayflower returned to the Washington Navy Yard 25 May.
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