| 释义 |
- Construction
- Service Capture of pirate schooner Bravo
- Notes
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}}{{Infobox Ship Career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | United States|coast guard}} | Ship name=USRC Alabama | Ship namesake=U.S. state of Alabama | Ship owner= | The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service was known as the Revenue Marine during the time Alabama was in commission.[1][2]|group=Note}} | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Christian Bergh, New York City | Ship original cost={{usd}}4,500 | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed=June 1819[3] | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport=Mobile, Alabama | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate=Sold 6 August 1833[4] | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox Ship Characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption==[5][6] | Ship class=Alabama Class | Ship type=Topsail schooner | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=56 tons | Ship tons burthen= | 52|ft|0|in|m|abbr=on}} (Keel) | 18|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= | 5|ft|9|in|m|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion= | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement= | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | The caliber of amidships gun would have been either 9-pounder, 12-pounder, or 18-pounder.[7][3]|group=Note}} | Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | USRC Alabama, was a wood-hull topsail schooner designed by William Doughty that was commissioned in the United States Revenue Marine from 1819 to 1833. Assigned the homeport of Mobile, Alabama, she sailed the Caribbean extensively with her sister ship, USRC Louisiana and was used mainly in anti-piracy activity.[7]ConstructionOn 6 April 1819, the Collector of Customs at New York City was authorized by the Treasury Department to build two cutters, one to be stationed in Louisiana and the other to be stationed at Mobile, Alabama.[8] The cutters were constructed by the Christian Bergh Shipyard at New York City using plans drawn up by naval constructor William Doughty. Doughty designed plans for 31-ton, 51-ton, and 80-ton cutters for the Revenue Marine. The Alabama-class cutters, consisting of Alabama and Louisiana were constructed on the 51-ton plan that measured {{convert|56|ft|10|in|m|abbr=on}} on deck, with a {{convert|17|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} beam, and a {{convert|6|ft|m|abbr=on}} depth of hold. Both were rigged as fore-topsail schooners with a square stern, raking masts, and light rails instead of heavy bulwarks. Both cutters were not armed initially, but were designed to accept a pivot gun amidships of a 9-pound to 18-pound capacity.[9] ServiceAfter commissioning in New York City, Alabama was assigned a homeport at Mobile, Alabama on 11 August 1819.[10] Capture of pirate schooner BravoWhile on her voyage to her homeport at Mobile, on 31 August 1819, Alabama assisted her sister ship, Louisiana in the capture of the pirate vessel Bravo near Dry Tortugas.[11] Bravo initiated the attack on Louisiana with a volley of musketry, during which the first officer and three crewmen were wounded. The pirate ship was owned by Jean Lafitte and commanded by Jean Defarges, one of his lieutenants.{{#tag:ref|Evans and the Record of Movements uses Lefarge with no first name used in the text.[12][8]|group=Note}} Bravo had captured the Spanish schooner Filomena with a cargo of flour bound for Havana, Cuba out of Pensacola, Florida. The crew of Bravo were taken to New Orleans to await trial on charges of piracy while the passengers of Filomena were freed and returned to their ship.[7][8][13] Following the action, Alabama was temporarily assigned at New Orleans on 20 October. [14] Notes- Footnotes
1. ^Evans, p 7
2. ^King, p 112
3. ^1 Canney, p 11
4. ^Canney, p 11
5. ^"Alabama, 1819", Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard Manned Army & Navy Vessels, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
6. ^Canney, p 11
7. ^1 2 Evans, p 22
8. ^1 2 Record of Movements, p 76
9. ^King, pp 66-67
10. ^Record of Movements, p 76
11. ^Record of Movements, p 74
12. ^Evans, p 22
13. ^King, pp 69-70
14. ^Record of Movements, p 74
- Citations
{{reflist}}- References used
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- {{cite web|title=Record of Movements, Vessels of the United States Coast Guard, 1790–December 31, 1933 (1989 reprint)|publisher=U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation|url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/RecordofMovements.pdf|format=pdf}}
- {{cite book|last=Canney|first=Donald L.|title=U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935|year=1995|publisher=Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-1-55750-101-1}}
- {{cite book|last=Evans|first=Stephen H.|title=The United States Coast Guard 1790–1915: A Definitive History|year=1949|publisher=Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=}}
- {{cite book|last=King (1989)|first=Irving H.|title=The Coast Guard Under Sail: The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, 1789–1865|year=1989|publisher=Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland|isbn=978-0-87021-234-5}}
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