Name Bowditch Decommissioned 1874 Beam 20 ft (6.1 m) | Commissioned 1854 Type Schooner Length 21 m | |
Namesake Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1878), a mathematician and author | ||
USCS Bowditch was a schooner that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1854 to 1874.
Bowditch spent her entire Coast Survey career operating along the United States East Coast.
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