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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