Antietam, 1864
Builder: Fardy, Baltimore, MD
Cost: Unknown
Rig: Topsail schooner
Machinery: Unknown
Length: Unknown
Beam: Unknown
Draft: Unknown
Displacement: 85 tons
Keel Laid: Unknown
Launched: 1854
Obtained: Purchased 1 March 1864
Disposition: Sold, 15 January 1870
Complement: 12
Armament: 1 30-pdr. Parrot rifle
Cutter History:
A centerboard schooner purchased for $8.000 and sent to Beaufort, NC, 28 June 1864, Antietam became part of the Revenue Service's presence there, along with Agassiz, Brown, and Forward. Other than accomplishing routine customs tasks, Antietam seized a schooner off Roanoke lsland in 1864. In 1867 the cutter transferred to Texas and was later sold at Mobile, AL for $2,800.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
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