USC&GS Arago (1854)
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USC&GS Arago was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey from 1854 to 1878[Note 1] and in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1878 to 1881. From October 1861 into 1863 Arago was at times attached to the Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off South Carolina to provide hydrographic support. She was the first ship of the Coast Survey or Coast and Geodetic Survey to bear the name.
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Name | Arago |
Namesake | French astronomer and physicist Dominique François Jean Arago (1786–1853) |
Builder | Fardy and Brothers, Baltimore, Maryland |
Completed | 1854 |
In service | 1854-1881 |
Fate | Sold 1881 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Survey ship |
Length | 81 ft (25 m) |
Beam | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
Draft | 4 ft 5 in (1.35 m) |
Propulsion | sails |
Sail plan | Schooner-rigged |
Armament | Weapons of unrecorded size and number while armed by Treasury Department Revenue Service and during attachment to Navy's blockading squadron. |
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