Essayons, 1855

Jan. 4, 2021
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Essayons, 1855


French for "Let Us Try".


Builder: Unknown

Cost: $6,000 (purchase price)

 

Rig: schooner

Length: 42'

Beam: 14' 6"

Draft: Unknown

Displacement: 40 tons

Built: Unknown

Acquired: 1855

Commissioned: 1855

Disposition: Condemned October 1859; sold 1 December 1859

Complement: Unknown


Cutter History:

A small schooner purchased by the Lighthouse Establishment in 1855 to replace USHLT Fairy in the 9th Lighthouse District. Declared unseaworthy in October 1859, the ship was sold at auction on 1 December 1859 for $308.70.


Sources:

Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939.  Annapolis and Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.