Bache, 1869

Built at: Unknown

Cost: $7,000 (purchase price)

          $2,190 (outfitting)

 

Rig: schooner

Length: 81' 6"

Beam: 24'

Draft: 4' 6"

Displacement: 95 tons

Built: Unknown

Acquired: From US Coast Survey

Commissioned: May 1869

Disposition: Decommissioned later in 1869; returned to Coast Survey.

Complement: Unknown

Cutter History:

The Coast Survey schooner USCSS A.D. Bache, transferred to the Lighthouse Service in May 1869 and commissioned. It was assigned to the 7th Lighthouse District for approximately 6 months. 

Sources:

Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939.  Annapolis and Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.

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