USRC James C. Dobbin (1853)
 USRC James C. Dobbin was a topsail schooner of the Cushing-class (1853) named after President Franklin Pierce's Secretary of the Navy James Cochrane Dobbin. She was initially stationed at Wilmington North Carolina but in 1856 was moved to Savannah Georgia. She was seized by a secessionist mob on 3 January 1861 at Savannah and the officers and crew were held in irons. After the local customs inspector protested the seizure Joseph E.