USC&GS Mikawe

USC&GS Mikawe
USC&GS Mikawe at Norfolk, Virginia on 4 July 1928, dressed for Independence Day.
History
United States
Name:
Namesake: Previous name retained
Builder: Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, Michigan
Completed: 1916
Acquired: 24 April 1919
Commissioned: 1920
Fate: Destroyed by fire 27 October 1939
General characteristics
Type: Launch
Length: 64.5 ft (19.7 m)
Beam: 14 ft (4.3 m)
Draft: 5.5 ft (1.7 m)
Installed power: 75 hp (56 kW) Gasoline engine

USC&GS Mikawe was a United States Coast and Geodetic Survey launch in commission from 1920 to 1939.

Mikawe was built as a civilian wooden-hulled motorboat of the same name in 1916 by Defoe Boat and Motor Works at Bay City, Michigan. From 1917 to 1919, she served in the United States Navy as the patrol vessel USS Mikawe (SP-309).

On 24 April 1919,[Note 1] Mikawe was transferred to the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Placed in service in 1920, she served along the United States East Coast during her Survey career. In the late 1920s, she served as a training ship for Coast and Geodetic Survey deck officers.

Mikawe was destroyed by fire while taking on gasoline on 27 October 1939 in Norfolk, Virginia. Clement A. Bennett was killed with Lieutenant Max G. Ricketts, Anon J. Small, William D. Bennett, Elton E. Mooney and Issac R. Jones being seriously injured.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ The NOAA History Web site claims she was acquired from the Navy sometime in 1920; presumably the NOAA site is confusing her transfer date with the date on which she entered Coast and Geodetic Survey service.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Mikawe". Coast & Geodetic Survey Ships. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
  2. ↑ Director, United States Coast And Geodetic Survey (1940). Annual Report of the Director, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940 (pdf). Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. pp. 120–121. Retrieved 2012-02-28.
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