Bronx, 1863
Built: Brooklyn, NY
Cost: Unknown
Machinery: Unknown
Length: 119'
Beam: 22'
Draft: 9'
Displacement: 220 tons
Keel Laid: Unknown
Launched: 1863
Obtained: Purchased 1863
Disposition: Lost 4 April 1873
Complement: Unknown
Armament: Unknown
Cutter History:
Formerly Addison F. Andrews of the Boston and Hingham Steam Boat Company, she was purchased by the Revenue Cutter Service for an authorized $42,000 on 5 December 1863. She was renamed Bronx on 13 January 1864 and served as a harbor boat at New York.
She was on harbor duty at New York until she foundered off Long Island 4 April 1873.
Sources:
Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).