Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-23
.. =. REVENUE CUTTERS. ETC.

The revenue marine service can conn,
upon 80 available craft, two beino laid
up FOR repairs at Baltimore and RnffaIo
and another awaiting assignment a.
New York. OF the vessels in the revsn-
ne marine fleet five are Considered fir-,-
class and are assigned to duty at Mil
waukee. Erie, Pa; Eastport, Me-. ard
New York, while the other ia laid nm. "a
ara considered second-class vessels. II
third7class; z are unrated, classified as
follows: Steam propeilers, 20: sloops.
=; side-wheelers, B.; side-propeIIer and
bark, each, and 2 steam Iauucn es
Ei2ht craft IN ths service have no guns.
indeed, the total armament is only a
oagateile, consisting of So guns. The
largest vessel IN the marine service is
the side-wheeier Andrew johnson, of
453 tons, built in 1855. stationed at Mil
|aukee aud having the whole of Lake
Michi2an and into Lake Superior as far
as Aarquette as a cruising groand. The
small vessels, sloops, range from 3 to 10
and ID tons. The bark S. =. Chase is
used at New Bedford. Mass, as a school
ship for cadets, the side-propeller being
the Commodore Perry, looking after
Uncle Sans revenue on Lake Erie.
Boston Is provided with two propellers,
one of them doing harbor duty; New
York With three, two in the harbor and
the other inside Long Island sound, also
rendering, when required, special duty
IN assisting the life-saving service.
Philadelphia has two revenue craft, one
of whica Is on harbor duty, and Ba!ti-
more aaS three, two III the harbor and
the other cruising in the waters of Cheas
peake bay. The revenue marine service
III the Pacific Is represented by three
cutters and steam barge. The Rich
ard hush Is second-class propeller Of
l9l tons burden, provided with 2 guns.
She has field for cruising all along
the coast OF California, and is princi-
pally called upon as relief vessel sent
out to ships in distress, shipwrecks and
drowning marines, aud never succeed.
ing III her missions. The Thomas II.
Corwin Is another cntter of same rate
and armament, with 81 tons. and a
cruising ground along the coast from
Neah Bay to San Francisco. The third
class steam barge John +. Hartley, 81
tons burden. does harbor duty exelu-
siveiy. The third-rate cutter Oliver
Wolcott, 235 tons and 3 guns, has ju-
risiiction over Puget Sound and the
whole of Washington Territory.
In the coast and geodetic service the
Government has q vessels in all. Ten
are steamers-1 stern wheeler and
screws-and of them 8 are in tho At
lantic and Gulf service, and in the
Pacific, the screw steamers Hsssler,
built in 1871 and 2t3 tons burden. and
the Macarthur, built five years later and
registering 1l2 tons. OF sailing vessels,
IL schooners and sloop, the Steadfast
of 80 tons, are all in service in Atlantic
and Gulf service with the exception of
the sohooners Earnest, built in 1875, and
the Yukon, bniIt two years later, which
are in the Pacific. The largest vessel in
the service is the Hassler.
There are 26 vessels in the lighthouse
service-l4 paddle and screw steamers,
varying in tonnage from ~, the lowest.
to 5iS, the highest, and 8 schooners. In
the Pacific are the side wheelers Mazan
ita of 4S4 and the Shubriok of 305 tons.
the twenty-sixth vessel is the Wissaria,
of 393 tons, and has not been assigned.