Vigilant, 1856
On the alert: watchful.
Builder: Unknown
Cost: $4,400 (purchase price)
$800 (alterations)
Rig: schooner
Length: Unknown
Beam: Unknown
Draft: Unknown
Displacement: Unknown
Built: 1856
Acquired: Unknown
Commissioned: 11 September 1856
Disposition: Sold 30 June 1866
Complement: Unknown
Cutter History:
The private schooner Mirror was purchased on 20 November 1856. It was assigned to the 1st and 7th Lighthouse Districts.
The ship wrecked near Key West in February 1866 and the hull was subsequently sold.
Sources:
Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis and Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.