USC&GS Silliman was a ship of the United States Coast Survey and later the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey named for Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman

Benjamin Silliman was an American chemist, one of the first American professors of science , and the first to distill petroleum.-Early life:...

. She was a schooner

Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel characterized by the use of fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts with the forward mast being no taller than the rear masts....

 built by Fardy and Woodall at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1871. She spent the period between 1871 and 1887 on the Atlantic coast, and was apparently transferred to the US Navy in 1888. She was briefly commanded in 1879 by future rear admiral Uriel Sebree

Uriel Sebree

Uriel Sebree was a career officer in the United States Navy. He entered the Naval Academy during the Civil War and served until 1910, retiring as a rear admiral. He is best remembered for his two expeditions into the Arctic and for serving as acting governor of American Samoa...

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