USCS Vanderbilt
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USCS Vanderbilt 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....
that served as a survey ship in the United States Coast Survey from 1842 to 1855.
Vanderbilt was built in 1842 and entered service with the Coast Survey that year. She spent her career along the United States East Coast.
Vanderbilt was retired in 1855.