USRC Gallatin (1871)

USRC Gallatin
History
United States Revenue Cutter Service
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