Friday, May 14, 2021

USCSS Robert J. Walker-- Part 3: Just the Facts

JUST THE FACTS

NAMESAKE:  Robert J. Walker

United States Senator from Mississippi (1836-1845)

Secretary of the Treasury (1845-1849)

Governor of Kansas Territory (1857)

BUILDER:  Joseph Tomlinson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

COMPLETED:  1844  (Intended as U.S. Revenue Service cutter, but turned down.)

ACQUIRED:  1848

 IN SERVICE:  1848

FATE: Sunk in collision 21 June 1860

--Old B-Runner


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