George W. Blunt (1856)
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George W. Blunt, completed in 1856, was a schooner built in New York that operated as a New York Sandy Hook pilot boat designated Pilot Boat No. 11.[note 1] The schooner was used to pilot vessels to and from the Port of New York and New Jersey. That schooner was sold to the United States Navy in 1861, renamed and commissioned as the USS G. W. Blunt (1856), serving in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in the South. A second schooner, also named George W. Blunt, was built in East Boston in 1861 and purchased to replace the first schooner as a pilot boat.[2][3]
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George W. Blunt pilot boat (1860). | |
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United States | |
Name |
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Namesake | George W. Blunt, nautical publisher |
Owner |
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Operator |
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Builder | Daniel Westervelt of New York City[1] |
Launched | 6 September 1856 |
Acquired | by Navy 23 November 1861 |
Commissioned | 4 December 1861 |
Decommissioned | 16 August 1865 |
In service | circa 1856 – 1865 |
Out of service | 16 August 1865 |
Homeport | New York |
Nickname(s) | Blunt |
Fate | Sold, Port Royal, S.C., 20 October 1865 |
General characteristics 1st Blunt | |
Class and type | Schooner |
Displacement | 122 tons |
Length | 85 feet |
Beam | 21 feet |
Propulsion | sails |
Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
History | |
United States | |
Name | George W. Blunt (2nd pilot schooner) |
Owner | New York Pilots |
Operator | John Phelan |
Port of registry | New York |
Builder | Brown & Lovell, Boston, Massachusetts |
Cost | $8,000 |
Completed | 1861 |
Acquired | 1861 |
Identification | Official Number 10423 |
Fate | wrecked in 1875 |
General characteristics 2nd George W. Blunt | |
Class and type | Schooner |
Tonnage | 52 tons |
Length | 75.4 feet |
Beam | 20.4 feet |
Depth | 8.6 feet |
Propulsion | sails |
Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
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