USC&GS Eagre

Last updated
USCGS Eagre.jpg
Eagre, c. 1901
History
Flag of the United States.svgUnited States
NameMohawk
OwnerWilliam T. Garner
Builder J.B & J.D. Van Deusen
Launched10 June 1875
FateSank on maiden voyage, 20 July 1876
Flag of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.svg U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
NameUSC&GS Eagre
Namesake Eagre
AcquiredRaised and purchased
FateTransferred to the United States Navy, 31 July 1903
Flag of the United States (1896-1908).svg  United States Navy
NameUSS Eagre
Acquired31 July 1903
Stricken10 September 1910
Homeport Norfolk, Virginia
FateSold
General characteristics
Type Schooner
Length140 ft (42.7 m)
ArmamentNone

USC&GS Eagre was a survey ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey which later served in the United States Navy as USS Eagre. She originally was the yacht Mohawk,

Contents

Ship history

The schooner-yacht Mohawk was launched from J. B. Van Deusen's shipyard in Williamsburg in Brooklyn, New York, for the millionaire cotton merchant William T. Garner. She was called the "biggest yacht in the world." [1] At 140 feet (42.7 meters) she was the largest racing yacht of her generation. Garner, his wife, and all but two passengers and one crewman were lost when the yacht capsized in a squall during her maiden voyage in New York Harbor [2] on 20 July 1876 [3] [4] off Stapleton on Staten Island. Mohawk was later raised at a cost of US$25,000, bought for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and renamed USC&GS Eagre, [2] taking her name from a term for a tidal bore, which is in turn derived from Ægir the Norse god of the sea.

In 1890 Eagre was part of a squadron of ships under the command of Lieutenant E. M. Hughes making the first systematic survey of the hazardous Nantucket Shoals. The steamer USC&GS A. D. Bache, the schooner Scoresby, and the steam tender Daisy made up the rest of the squadron, with A. D. Bache serving as flagship. [5]

Eagre eventually was transferred from the Coast and Geodetic Service to the United States Navy as USS Eagre on 31 July 1903, initially for use as tender to USS Franklin, the receiving ship at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, and as training ship for apprentice seamen in the Chesapeake Bay area. These duties terminated in late 1906, and she remained at Norfolk until approved for use as a barracks ship for enlisted men who were attached to the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was stricken on 10 September 1910 and sold. [6]

Related Research Articles

USS <i>Viking</i> (ARS-1) Minesweeper of the United States Navy

USS Flamingo (AM-32) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper built for the United States Navy near the end of World War I. After service overseas clearing mines after the Armistice, the ship was laid up until 1922 when she was transferred to the United States Department of Commerce for use by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Renamed USC&GS Guide, the ship operated as a survey vessel along the West Coast of the United States for 17 years, making significant contributions to navigation, hydrographic surveying, and oceanography. In June 1941, Guide was transferred back to the Navy, converted into a salvage ship, and renamed USS Viking (ARS-1). As Viking, she worked primarily from bases in California until 1953, when she was sold for scrapping.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Pope McArthur</span> American naval officer and hydrologist

William Pope McArthur was an American naval officer and hydrologist who was involved in the first surveys of the Pacific Coast for the United States Coast Survey.

USS <i>Oceanographer</i> (AGS-3) Survey ship of the United States Navy

USS Oceanographer (AGS-3) was a survey ship of the United States Navy during World War II that produced charts chiefly of passages in the Solomon Islands area of the Pacific Ocean. Upon transfer to the Navy, she had initially briefly been named and classed as gunboat USS Natchez (PG-85). Before her World War II Navy service, she had been USC&GS Oceanographer (OSS-26), a survey ship with the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1930.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">United States Coast and Geodetic Survey</span> Former U.S. government scientific agency

The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, known from 1807 to 1836 as the Survey of the Coast and from 1836 until 1878 as the United States Coast Survey, was the first scientific agency of the United States Government. It existed from 1807 to 1970, and throughout its history was responsible for mapping and charting the coast of the United States, and later the coasts of U.S. territories. In 1871, it gained the additional responsibility of surveying the interior of the United States and geodesy became a more important part of its work, leading to it being renamed the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1878.

USS <i>Ranger</i> (SP-237) Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

The fifth USS Ranger (SP-237) was United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.

USS <i>Lydonia</i> Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Lydonia (SP-700) was United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 that saw service during World War I. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she had been William A. Lydon's private yacht, Lydonia II, from 1912 to 1917. She spent most of the war based at Gibraltar, escorting and protecting Allied ships in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic Ocean coast of Europe. After her U.S. Navy service ended, she served from 1919 to 1947 in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the coastal survey ship USCGS Lydonia (CS-302).

USC&GS <i>Pioneer</i> (1918)

USC&GS Pioneer was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1922 to 1941. She was the first ship of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to bear the name.

USS <i>Surveyor</i>

USS Surveyor was an armed steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. Prior to her U.S. Navy service, she operated as the survey ship USC&GS Surveyor for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1917, and she returned to that role after her U.S. Navy decommissioning, remaining in Coast and Geodetic Survey service until 1956.

USS <i>Elsie III</i> Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Elsie III (SP-708) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919 that saw service during World War I. After the completion of her U.S. Navy career, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Elsie III from 1919 to 1944.

USC&GS <i>Ranger</i>

USC&GS Ranger was a steamer that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1919 to 1930 or 1931.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gilbert T. Rude</span>

Gilbert T. Rude (1881–1962) was an officer in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey—one of the ancestor organizations of the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- and the United States Navy. He served as Chief of the Division of Coastal Surveys in the Coast and Geodetic Survey. A NOAA ship was named for him.

USC&GS <i>Isis</i>

USC&GS Isis was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1915 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1920.

USC&GS <i>Hydrographer</i> (1901)

The first USC&GS Hydrographer was a survey launch that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1901 to 1917 and from 1919 to 1928.

USC&GS <i>Discoverer</i> (1918) The first of this name was a survey ship in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

The first USC&GS Discoverer was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1922 to 1941.

USC&GS <i>Guide</i> (1929) American survey ship

The second USC&GS Guide was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1941 to 1942.

USC&GS <i>Mikawe</i> Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USC&GS Mikawe was a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey launch in commission from 1920 to 1939.

USC&GS <i>A. D. Bache</i> (1871)

USC&GS A. D. Bache, the second steamer of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, was named for Alexander Dallas Bache, a former superintendent of the Survey. She was launched in August 1871 at Wilmington, Delaware, and was in commission from 1871 to 1900.

USS <i>Onward</i> (SP-311) Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Onward (SP-311), a former yacht named Galatea and then Ungava was a patrol yacht acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War I. She was transferred to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey where she served briefly until return to the Navy for a brief time before her disposal by sale. She was renamed Thelma Phoebe.

USS <i>Helianthus</i> Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Helianthus (SP-585) was a patrol vessel in commission in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919, seeing service in World War I. After her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Helianthus from 1919 to 1939. She was named after the Helianthus, the genus to which the sunflower belongs.

USS <i>Scandinavia</i> Patrol vessel of the United States Navy

USS Scandinavia (SP-3363) was a patrol vessel in commission in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919, seeing service in World War I. After her U.S. Navy service, she was in commission in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey as the survey launch USC&GS Scandinavia from 1919.

References

  1. ↑ "The Biggest Yacht In the World". Nashville Union and American. Nashville, Tennessee. 13 Jun 1875. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  2. 1 2 "A Misfit Ghost" (PDF). horrormasters.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  3. ↑ Hall, Henry, ed. (1895). America's successful men of affairs. Vol. 1. New York City: New York Tribune. p. 252. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  4. ↑ "Annual report of the United States Life Saving Service, Year ending June 30, 1877". University of Michigan. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  5. ↑ "To Survey Nantucket Shoals - A Squadron at Work Trying to Lessen the Dangers of Navigation". New York Times . 10 August 1890. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  6. ↑ "Eagre". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships . Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command . Retrieved 8 September 2010.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.