Name USRC Gallatin Class and type Gallatin class Length 42 m | Commissioned 1874 Launched 1871 Weight 254 tons | |
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Namesake U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) Builder David Bell Company, Buffalo, New York Fate Foundered 6 January 1892 | ||
USRC Gallatin, was a Gallatin Class revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1874 to 1892. She was the fourth ship of the Revenue Cutter Service to bear the name, and was also known as Albert Gallatin.
Gallatin was laid down by the David Bell Company at Buffalo, New York, in 1871 and commissioned in 1874. She was equipped with a Fowler steering propeller, which was a six-bladed screw with a separate engine for steering and reversing, but it proved to be uneconomical; both the machinery and propeller were replaced in 1874.
Gallatin was stationed at Boston, Massachusetts. She cruised the United States East Coast from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Holmes Hole, Massachusetts. She sank off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, on 6 January 1892.