USRC Bibb
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The revenue cutter USRC George M. Bibb was an iron-hulled steamboat built at Pittsburgh in 1845, named after the then-Secretary of the Treasury George M. Bibb, which served on blockade duty during the Mexican–American War in 1846, and was transferred to the United States Coast Survey in 1847. Its engines were salvaged for a second Bibb that is sometimes considered to be a rebuild of the George M. Bibb.
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Name | USRC George M. Bibb, USS Bibb |
Namesake | George M. Bibb |
Owner | U.S. Revenue-Marine, 1845–47; U.S. Coast Survey, 1847–1852 |
Laid down | 1843 |
Launched | 1845 |
Commissioned | 1845 |
Decommissioned | 1852 |
Maiden voyage | 1845 |
In service | 1845–1852 |
Out of service | 1852 |
Refit | 1846 |
Stricken | 1852 (est.) |
Homeport | New Orleans, Boston |
Fate | Engines salvaged for use in USS Bibb (1853) |
General characteristics | |
Type | Three-masted barquentine |
Displacement | 409 tons |
Length | 160 ft (49 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draft | 9.5 ft (2.9 m) |
Propulsion | (as built) Hunter's wheel; (in service) side wheel |
Complement | 58 |
Armament | 1× long 18-pounder, 4× 32-pounders |
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