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USC&GS A. D. Bache (1871)
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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,[1][Note 1] and was in commission from 1871 to 1900.
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Name | Alexander D. Bache |
Namesake | Alexander Dallas Bache, former Superintendent of the Coast Survey |
Builder | Harlan and Hollingsworth, Wilmington, Delaware, though Shipbuilding History shows her as hull #92 at Pusey & Jones, Wilmington. |
Launched | 1871 |
Out of service | December 19, 1900 |
Notes | Records of C&GS mention the ship arriving at Shooters Island, New York to be "rebuilt" when shortly thereafter the same record states an entirely new hull and boiler were built with machinery, instruments and the name transferred to the new hull. |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 182 tons |
Length | 147 ft 8 in (45.01 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 5 in (7.14 m) |
Draught | 10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) |
Propulsion | steam and sail |
Notes | Modern sources, including DANFS and the NOAA ship page, perpetuate identical tonnage and dimensions for the 1871 and 1901 ships. An entirely new hull was built in 1901. Contemporary sources, the annual reports to Congress, clearly specific to the ships of 1871 and 1901 are different and are used. |
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