USS McCulloch (1897)
USRC McCulloch, ca. 1900.
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.png){kind=small} U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
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| Name: | USRC McCulloch |
| Namesake: | Hugh McCulloch (1808–1895), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1865-1869, 1884-1885) |
| Builder: | William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Cost: | $196,500 |
| Launched: | 1896 |
| Commissioned: | 12 December 1897 |
| Fate: | Became part of U.S. Coast Guard fleet, 28 January 1915 |
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.png){kind=small} U.S. Coast Guard
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| Name: | USCGC McCulloch |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Acquired: | 28 January 1915 |
| Fate: | Transferred to U.S. Navy, 6 April 1917 |
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 U.S. Navy
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| Name: | USS McCulloch |
| Namesake: | Previous name retained |
| Commissioned: | 6 April 1917 |
| Fate: | Sunk in collision 13 June 1917 |
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| Displacement: | 1,280 or 1,432 tons (sources differ) |
| Length: | 219 ft (67 m) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 6 in (9.91 m) or 33.4 ft (10.2 m) (sources differ) |
| Draft: | 16 ft (4.9 m) |
| Depth: | 17.1 ft (5.2 m) or 19 ft (5.8 m) (sources differ) |
| Propulsion: | One triple-expansion steam engine, 21½-inch-, 34½-inch-, and 56½-inch-diameter (546-mm-, 876-mm-, and 1,435-mm-diameter) x 30-inch (762-mm) stroke; 2,400 ihp (1,790 Kw); 2 boilers, 200 psi (1,379 kPa) |
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| Speed: | 17 knots (on trials) |
| Complement: | 130 (wartime) |
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USS McCulloch, previously USRC McCulloch and USCGC McCulloch, was a ship that served as a United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter from 1897 to 1915, as a United States Coast Guard Cutter from 1915 to 1917, and as a United States Navy patrol vessel in 1917. She saw combat during the Spanish-American War during the Battle of Manila Bay and patrolled off the United States West Coast during World War I. In peacetime, she saw extensive service in the waters off the Territory of Alaska and U.S. West Coast. She sank in 1917 after colliding with another steamer.
William Cramp & Sons built McCulloch at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a three-masted cruising cutter for the United States Revenue Cutter Service at a cost of $196,500 and launched her in 1896. She was of composite construction, with a hull made of wood planks mounted on a steel frame. She had a single triple-expansion steam engine and a barkentine rig that allowed her to extend her range by operating under sail power. Her four 3-inch (76.2-mm) guns were mounted in sponsons on her forward and aft quarters, and her single 15-inch (381-mm) torpedo tube was molded into her bow stem. At the time, she was the largest cutter ever built for the Revenue Cutter Service, and she remained the largest cutter in the Revenue Cutter Service – and later the United States Coast Guard – fleet throughout her service life.
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