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was built for the U.S. Revenue-Marine under the supervision of
Captain H. D. Hunter, U.S. Revenue-Marine. She apparently was built quickly, as orders were issued on 11 November 1837 for the ship to conduct "winter cruising" off the
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on 16 June 1847 and contributed six officers and 30 men to a force under the command of
Captain S. L. Breese that formed part of the 1,173-man landing force that attacked and captured the Mexican stronghold at
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in 1846, she was dismasted in a severe gale. Battered and worn but still afloat, she limped into port. She had lost 11 men overboard in the storm, including her commanding officer, Lieutenant George M. Bache.
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underwent extensive repairs at New York which lasted into the early winter. Alterations were completed on 9 December 1852.
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remained in the New York area, where she operated locally for the next six years. In the second week of
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and his crew, saving the two passengers to navigate the ship back to Africa. During the next two months, in which
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two months or so before, carrying two white passengers and 54 slaves, bound for
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operations off the coast in the summers of 1838 and 1839 in support of the
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of that name to serve in the U.S. Navy and was named after
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in the spring of 1859 to relieve the revenue cutter
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Treasury Department on 18 May 1852,
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211:10 guns (pre-1860); 1 Ă— 42-pound pivot (1860)
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362:sighted a "suspicious-looking vessel" at
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16:For other ships with the same name, see
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694:"NOAA History - Peter G. Washington"
636:United States Revenue Cutter Service
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284:Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
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806:from websites or documents of the
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155:General characteristics
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272:Peter G. Washington
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