Essayons, 1855
French for "Let Us Try".
Builder: Unknown
Cost: $6,000 (purchase price)
Rig: schooner
Length: 42'
Beam: 14' 6"
Draft: Unknown
Displacement: 40 tons
Built: Unknown
Acquired: 1855
Commissioned: 1855
Disposition: Condemned October 1859; sold 1 December 1859
Complement: Unknown
Cutter History:
A small schooner purchased by the Lighthouse Establishment in 1855 to replace USHLT Fairy in the 9th Lighthouse District. Declared unseaworthy in October 1859, the ship was sold at auction on 1 December 1859 for $308.70.
Sources:
Douglas Peterson. United States Lighthouse Service Tenders, 1840-1939. Annapolis and Trappe, MD: Eastwind Publishing, 2000.