Ships of the United States Coast Survey - Uscs Varina, Uscs Robert J. Walker, Uscs Active, Usrc Taney, Uscs Varina, Uscs Robert J. Walker, Uscs Active, Usrc Taney, Uscs Bancroft, Uscs Meredith, Uscs Morris Uscs Bancroft, Uscs Meredith, Uscs Morris (Paperback)

Chapters: Uscs Varina, Uscs Robert J. Walker, Uscs Active, Usrc Taney, Uscs Bancroft, Uscs Meredith, Uscs Morris, Uscs Belle, Uscs Madison, Uscs Phoenix, Uscs Vanderbilt, Uscs Baltimore, Uscs Bowditch, Uscs Mcarthur, Uscs Thomas R. Gedney, Uscs Baton Rouge, Uscs Fathomer, Uscs A. D. Bache, Uscs Arago, Uscs Silliman, Uscs Barataria, Uscs Yukon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: USCS Varina was a schooner that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from 1854 to 1875. Varina was built in 1854 by Fardy Brothers at Baltimore, Maryland. She entered Coast Survey service that year. On more than one occasion, Varina assisted mariners in distress. In December 1856, at the request of the American consul in Havana, Cuba, Varina called at Nassau on New Providence in the Bahama Islands to take on board the crew and steerage passengers of the American ship Julia Howard, which a short time earlier had wrecked on the Bahama Banks, leaving her crew and passengers destitute at New Providence. Varina transported Julia Howards crew to Havana, and then took her passengers and any crew who preferred it to Pensacola, Florida. In February 1858, in response to a request for help by the consignees of the schooner Georgia, which had stranded a few days earlier about 30 nautical miles (56 kilometers) from Pensacola, Varina proceeded to the site of the wreck, but the combined efforts of the crews of Varina and Georgia failed to free Georgia. On the night of 20 January 1858, Varina was at Pensacola, Florida, when a major fire broke out at the United States Armys Fort Pickens. Her hydrographic party, along with men and boats of the Coast Survey steamer USCS Robert J. Walker, promptly assisted in...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2483226