People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Two New Revenue Cutters. [ARTICLE]

Two New Revenue Cutters.

Captain Shoemaker, chief of the revenue cutter service, has completed plans and specifications for the two new cutters authorized to be built by the act of June 11, 1896. The vessels are to be 205 feet over all, with 32 feet beam. They will be modem, and the construction will be first class in every particular. They will be provided with steam steering apparatus, steam windlass and capstan, steam machinery, with Scotch boilers and triple expansion engines of 2, COO indicated horsepower. They will be duplicates and are expected to cost about $185,000 each. ,It is the intention of Captain Shoemaker to have them ready to go into commission on the great, lakes in the spring of 1898.