Granite, 1860
Builder: NA
Commissioned: purchased in 1860, transferred to the US Navy in 1862.
Decommissioned: USN on 29 June 1865, returned to the US Lighthouse Service and sold in Philadelphia in December 1866 for $ 2,092.99.
Length: NA
Navigation Draft: NA
Beam: NA
Displacement: 75 tons
Propulsion: sloop-rigged schooner
Maximum Speed: NA
Complement: NA
Armament: unarmed in USLHS
Design & Service:
The Granite was used in the construction of Minots Ledge Lighthouse. During the Civil War it operated in the Sounds of North Carolina with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Sources:
Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.