USRC Pamlico
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For other ships with the same name, see USCGC Pamlico.
USRC Pamlico was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service that served from 1907 to 1946 designed specifically to cruise inland waters and did so while stationed at New Bern, North Carolina her entire career.[3]
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Name | USRC Pamico |
Namesake | Pamlico Sound, North Carolina |
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Builder | Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Delaware |
Cost | US$167,750[1] |
Launched | 8 March 1907 |
Commissioned | 27 July 1907 |
Decommissioned | 6 September 1946 |
Out of service | Sold, 7 July 1947 |
Renamed | Charles W. Currett |
Identification | WPR-57 (U.S. Coast Guard) |
General characteristics [2] | |
Displacement | 455 fl, (1907) |
Length | 158 ft (48 m) |
Beam | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
Draft | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) |
Installed power | 1 Babcock & Wilcox 600 SHP steam triple-expansion reciprocating |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 9.8 kn (18.1 km/h; 11.3 mph) max. sustained, (1907) |
Range | 817 nautical miles (1,513 km; 940 mi), (1907) |
Complement |
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Armament | 2 6-pounders[2] |
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