USRC Mohawk

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USRC Mohawk
History
United States
NameMohawk
NamesakeThe
Mohawk tribe[1]
Builder
Commissioned10 May 1904 into United States Revenue Cutter Service
Recommissioned6 April 1917 by United States Navy[1]
Fate
General characteristics [3]
Displacement1,150 long tons (1,168 t)
Length205 ft 6 in (62.64 m)
Beam32 ft 0 in (9.75 m)
Draft12 ft 7 in (3.84 m)
Installed powertriple-expansion steam engine,25 in (0.64 m), 37.5 in (0.95 m), 56.25 in (1.429 m) diameter X 30 in (0.76 m) stroke, single screw[2]
Armament
  • 2 × 6 pounder rapid fire guns (1907)
  • 4 × 6 pounder rapid fire guns (1914)[2]

USRC Mohawk, was a steel steam powered

U.S. Revenue Cutter Service by William R. Trigg Company at Richmond, Virginia
. Her primary duties in the Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard were assisting vessels in distress and enforcing navigational laws as well as a derelict destroyer. Mohawk was sunk after a collision with another vessel in October 1917.

Construction

Mohawk was steel-hulled cutter constructed by William R. Trigg Company of Richmond, Virginia.

Curtis Bay, Maryland, with Captain Worth G. Ross commanding.[3][2][6]

History

1904–1917

Shortly after commissioning, Mohawk was based at

Whitestone, New York.[6] On 25 August she responded to orders to assist SS Barnes which was grounded 1.75 mi (2.82 km) from Jones Beach Life-Saving Station.[6]

In June 1906 Mohawk again patrolled several regattas in her patrol area in addition to her regular duties as well as the patrol area of

USRC Gresham while she was laid up for repairs. In December she was called to the scenes of several derelicts in her patrol area to destroy them.[7]

On 12 February 1907 Mohawk assisted in helping the survivors of a collision that occurred in her patrol area between SS Larchmont and schooner Knowlton.[7]

On 26 February 1909 Mohawk ran aground in Hell Gate on Hog Back Ledge. She was refloated, repaired and returned to service.[8]

On 6 March 1910, Mohawk assisted by USRC Onondaga towed the abandoned waterlogged four-masted schooner Asbury Fountain to Norfolk, Virginia after she suffered a collision with SS Jamestown.[9]

In April 1912, Mohawk and

USRC Acushnet helped rescue the crew from SS Ontario, which was ablaze off Montauk Point, Long Island.[10]

On 26 April 1912, Mohawk was called upon to transport President

William H. Taft from New York City's Recreation Pier to Governors Island and back on the occasion of the funeral of Major General Frederick Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant. In September, she was tasked with helping Dr. George Styles of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in his study of the bottom of the Potomac River.[2][11]

On 5 July 1913, Mohawk received

drydocked, repaired, and returned to service.[14]

U.S. Navy service

Mohawk was temporarily transferred to the

patrol vessels USS Mohican and USS Sabalo.[2][Note 2] The water was deemed too deep to warrant salvage operations so Mohawk was left where she sank.[1] On 7 February 1921, salvage rights were sold to H.L. Gotham Corporation of New York City for US$111.00.[2]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ^ Colton mentions the bankruptcy of the Trigg Company in 1903 and the fact that several ships under construction in the yard either were not finished or had to be completed by their owners. Mohawk evidently had to be completed by the Revenue Cutter Service. It is not clear whether this was done under a contract to some third party or the work was completed by service personnel.[4][5]
  2. ^ Johnson claims all crew members of Mohawk were picked up by the U.S. Navy storeship USS Bridge and uses the reference "Johnston and Crisp" as his source. Charles E. Johnston and Richard O. Crisp were two Coast Guard captains who authored A History of the Coast Guard in the World War in a four-volume unpublished typescript.[18][19] The Coast Guard Historian's Office website cites no specific source about USS Mohican and USS Sabalo rescuing crewmen from Mohawk.[2]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mohawk", Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Mohawk, 1904", Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
  3. ^ a b c d Canney, pp 60–61
  4. ^ Colton, Tim; "William R. Trigg Co., Richmond VA", Shipyard Index, Shipbuilding History
  5. ^ "Richmonder took risk on shipbuilding business", TMCnet.com, Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch
  6. ^ a b c d Record of Movements, p 59
  7. ^ a b Record of Movements, p 60
  8. ^ "American Marine Engineer January, 1909". National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the United States. Retrieved 3 February 2021 – via Haithi Trust.
  9. ^ King, p 143
  10. ^ Evans, p 214
  11. ^ Record of Movements, p 61
  12. ^ Record of Movements, p 62
  13. ^ "U.S. Coast Guard General Order No. 1", Historic Documents & Publications, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
  14. ^ R.C. Mohawk, New Jersey Scuba Diving
  15. ^ Larzelere, p 183
  16. ^ Record of Movements, p 63
  17. ^ Johnson, p 47
  18. ^ Johnson, p 394
  19. ^ "Register of the officers, vessels and stations of the United States Coast Guard, January 1, 1918", U.S. Government Printing Office, p 79

References

External links
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