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USRC ''Ashuelot'' was a screw steam revenue cutter built for the United States Revenue Marine during the American Civil War. ''Ashuelot'' was homeported in Maine and later in Charleston, South Carolina during her brief career with the Revenue Marine. In 1866, she played an important role in the prevention of an armed raid on Canada by the Fenian Brotherhood. Sold into merchant service in 1867 due to dissatisfaction with her machinery, ''Ashuelot'' later voyaged to Japan, operating under the names ''Takao'' and ''Kaiten No. 2''. She was destroyed in the Battle of Miyako Bay in 1869. ==Construction and design== ''Ashuelot'' was one of six ''Pawtuxet''-class screw schooners ordered by the Treasury Department in 1863 for the United States Revenue Marine. She was built in New York by John Englis, from whose yard she was launched on 8 July 1863.〔("''Ashuelot'', 1863" ), U.S. Coast Guard website.〕 Englis was later awarded a bronze medal by the American Institute for a model of the vessel, "a trophy valued because of the great competition then existing in that department of American ship-building".〔Sheldon, G. W. (1882): "The Old Ship-Builders of New York", (p. 232 ), ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'', Volume 65, Issue 386, July 1882.〕 ''Ashuelot'' was long, with a beam of and both hold depth and draft of around .〔〔("The New Revenue Cutters—The Launch of Two of Them" ), ''The New York Times'', 1863-07-10.〕〔("Naval News" ), ''The New York Times'', 1864-11-02.〕 Like the other ships of her class, her contract called for a hull of oak, locust and white oak, strengthened with diagonal iron bracing.〔 Her two-cylinder oscillating engine, built by New York's Novelty Iron Works, drove a single 8-foot (2.4 m) diameter screw propeller.〔〔 ''Ashuelot''s speed is unrecorded but was probably similar to the 12 knots achieved by her sister ship USRC ''Kankakee''.〔 She was topsail schooner-rigged for auxiliary sail power.〔 ''Ashuelot''s armament consisted of a single 30-pounder Parrott rifle pivot gun, and five 24-pounder howitzers, one mounted in a pivot aft.〔〔 She was crewed by a complement of seven officers and 34 enlisted men.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USRC Ashuelot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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