USRC Gallatin (1871)
 USRC Gallatin
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| History | |
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| Name | USRC Gallatin |
| Namesake | U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) |
| Builder | David Bell Company, Buffalo, New York |
| Launched | 1871 |
| Commissioned | 1874 |
| Fate | Foundered 6 January 1892 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Gallatin class |
| Type | topsail schooner |
| Displacement | 250 tons |
| Length | 137 ft 0 in (41.76 m) |
| Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Draft | 8 ft 0 in (2.44 m) |
| Depth | 9 ft 4 in (2.84 m) |
| Propulsion | Horizontal, direct-acting steam engine with Fowler steering propeller; Fowler propeller (1871); 34" diameter x 30" stroke, single boiler (1874) |
| Sail plan | Topsail schooner |
| Complement | 7 officers, 33 enlisted |
| Armament | 1 x 6-pounder gun |
USRC Gallatin, was a Gallatin Class revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1874 to 1892. She was the fourth ship of the Revenue Cutter Service to bear the name, and was also known as Albert Gallatin.
Gallatin was laid down by the David Bell Company at Buffalo, New York, in 1871 and commissioned in 1874. She was equipped with a Fowler steering propeller, which was a six-bladed screw with a separate engine for steering and reversing, but it proved to be uneconomical; both the machinery and propeller were replaced in 1874.
Gallatin was stationed at Boston, Massachusetts. She cruised the United States East Coast from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Holmes Hole, Massachusetts. She sank off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, on 6 January 1892.
References
- United States Coast Guard Historian's Office: Gallatin, 1871
- U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935, Donald L. Canney, Naval Institute Press, 1995