USS Reefer
1850s American military schooner, active in the Mexican–American War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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USS Reefer, was a pilot schooner purchased by the United States Navy at New York City on May 25, 1846 from shipbuilders Brown & Bell for service as a dispatch boat in Commodore David Conner's Home Squadron during the Mexican–American War.
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Name | USS Reefer |
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Acquired | May 25, 1846 |
Commissioned | June 19, 1846 |
Decommissioned | 1848 |
Fate | Sold at New York in 1848 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner |
Displacement | 76.5 short tons (69.4 t) |
Length | 59 ft (18 m) |
Beam | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
Draft | 6 ft (1.8 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 40 officers and enlisted |
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