Varina, 1861
Builder: Unknown
Cost: Unknown
Rig: Schooner
Length: Unknown
Beam: Unknown
Draft: Unknown
Displacement: Unknown
Keel Laid: Unknown
Launched: Unknown
Obtained: from Coast Survey on 31 May 1861
Disposition: Returned to Coast Survey on 22 November 1865
Complement: 45
Armament: 1 32-pdr., 1 24-pdr. pivots (1861)
Cutter History:
Described as "flat-bottomed" and able to carry enough water for twenty-five days, Varina was transferred on 9 September 1861 from the Coast Survey for duty in New Bedford, MA. One year later she was re-assigned to Perth Amboy, NJ. She was sent to Philadelphia, PA in June 1863 and returned to the Coast Survey after the war. She was sunk 18 January 1870.
Sources:
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
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