YEAR BUILT: 1849

BUILT AT: Records show "unknown"

APPROPRIATION: $12,500

BUILDER: Records show "unknown"

CONTRACT PRICE: $12,402

SISTER VESSELS: None

DESIGN: Wood-white oak; copper & locust fastenings; 2 masts; iron hoop daymark at main masthead

LENGTH: 98' 0" (lbp)

BEAM: 250" DRAFT: 96"

TONNAGE:210 gross

PROPULSION: Sail-schooner rig; fore and main carried on spencer masts

ILLUMINATING APPARATUS: Single lantern on main with 8 oil lamps & reflectors

FOG SIGNAL: Hand operated bell


CONSTRUCTION NOTES - MODIFICATIONS - EQUIPMENT CHANGES & IMPROVEMENTS: LV 2-

1849: Said to have been named GENERAL TAYLOR when launched-
1867: Rebuilt -$16,500-
1882: Rebuilt and resalted - $22,000-
1893: Recaulked, recoppered, stem repaired

STATION ASSIGNMENTS: LV 2

1849-1875: Pollock Rip (MA)
1875-1876:Winter Quarter Shoal (VA)
1877-1907: Hen and Chickens (MA)
1907-1910: Relief (4th District)
1910-1921: Relief (5th District)

(Prior to 1867/68 when No. 2 was assigned, official records identify this vessel as "Pollock Rip" or "the Pollock Rip")

HISTORICAL NOTES: LV 2-

While on Pollock Rip, broke adrift 1868 & 1873; carried off station by ice
1871 & 1874; rammed during 1867 & 1873-
1875: Sep, transferred to 4th District-
1875: Nov placed on Winter Quarter Shoal (VA)-
1877: Transferred to 2d District; placed on Hen and Chickens (MA) Nov 1-
1881: Reported to be "in bad order and worn out"-
1883: Repainted black-
1897: Vessel's liberty boat and 2 crewmen lost at sea while attempting passage
from New Bedford to the lightship-
1889:Broke adrift in gale and carried to sea. Worked into Narragansett Bay and
anchored 9 days later. Picked up and towed to station by AZALEA-
1905: Carried off station by ice-
1905: Appropriation bill for $90,000 introduced in Congress for replacement
vessel-
1907:Withdrawn from Hen & Chickens and transferred to 4th District as Relief,
based at Edgemoor, DE-
1910: Transferred to 5th District as Relief

More notes: LV 2-
1915 Feb 17, while relieving Bush Bluff, struck by tug EMMA KATE ROSS

RETIRED FROM LIGHTSHIP DUTY: 1922
AGE: 73

SUBSEQUENT DISPOSITION: Sold Mar 1, 1922 for $76

COMMANDING OFFICERS: LV 2

1849-1852: Samuel D Clifford, Master
1879-1887: George W Thompson, Asst Keeper
1892- 1893: Albert W Matthews, Asst Keeper
1893-1894: Albert W Matthews, Mate
1894-- 1901: Albert W Matthews, Master
1905-1906: James B Frizzel, Mate
1915-1916: A.T. Loss, Mate
1918: George W. Hamilton, Mate

To Hens and Chickens Lightship Station History.

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