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History
United States
Name	USRC Manning
Namesake	Daniel Manning, 37th United States Secretary of the Treasury
Operator	list error: <br /> list (help) U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (1898–1915) U.S. Coast Guard (1915–1930)
Awarded	27 June 1895
Builder	Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts
Cost	$159,951
Completed	11 August 1897
Commissioned	8 January 1898 to 2 February 1925
Recommissioned	7 January 1926
Decommissioned	22 May 1930
Fate	Sold 6 December 1930
General characteristics
Type	Revenue cutter
Displacement	1,150 tons
Length	205 ft 0 in (62.48 m)
Beam	32 ft 0 in (9.75 m)
Draft	13 ft 9 in (4.19 m)
Sail plan	originally brigantine
Speed	17 knots
Complement	10 officers, 65 enlisted
Armament	4 x 6-pounder RF guns

USRC Manning was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service that served from 1898 to 1930, and saw service in the U.S. Navy in the Spanish-American War and World War I.

Construction

Designed as a cruising cutter for Bering Sea service, Manning was built by Atlantic Works, East Boston, Massachusetts, for the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. She was accepted by Captain R.M Clark for the Revenue Cutter Service on 11 August 1897. She commissioned on 8 January 1898 and was assigned cruising grounds along the New England coast. Her lines were those of ancestral clipper cutters, but with a plumb bow instead of the more graceful clipper stem. The hull was of composite construction with the bottom made of wood; the design was thought at the time better to weather the ice conditions of the Bering Sea. As tensions mounted before the Spanish-American War was declared, she carried a single bow torpedo tube. Manning and her sister ships USRC Gresham, USRC McCulloch, USRC Algonquin, and USRC Onondaga were the last cruising cutters rigged for sail and carried the first electric generators installed on cutters. As a class, they were suitable for scouting, for rendering assistance, and for cruising at moderately long range. So successful was the design that these cutters furnished the general pattern for cutter construction for the ensuing 20 years.

History

Spanish-American War

Manning served during the Spanish-American War with the U.S. Navy during the period 24 March 1898 to 17 August 1898, while based out of Norfolk, Virginia as a coastal patrol vessel. This period included a four month war deployment, from May 1898 through August 1898, on blockade and escort duty off Cuba. On 12 May 1898, she joined armed yacht USS Wasp and unarmored cruiser USS Dolphin first in landing, then in providing naval gunfire support for the evacuation of a force of U.S. Army soldiers at Cabañas, Cuba.

Bering Sea Patrol

After the cessation of hostilities with Spain, Manning returned to the operational control of the Revenue Cutter Service. Her patrol duties took her along both the East Coast from Boston to Key West and included a patrol to Cuba and Puerto Rico. On 2 January 1900 Manning was ordered report to San Francisco by way of the Straits of Magellan for duties with the Bering Sea Patrol. During the years of 1900 through 1916 she patrolled the Bering Sea enforcing sealing treaties to prevent pelagic sealing and performing search and rescue duties, missing only the years 1904, 1906 and 1908. During 1904 she performed patrol duties along the West Coast. On 13 December 1905 Manning was assigned patrol duties in Hawaii where she remained until 8 May 1907 when she departed for the Bering Sea. Patrol work was cut short during the 1907 season when Manning struck an uncharted rock in Prince William Sound 15 August. Temporary repairs were made and she made for Bremerton Navy Yard for drydocking and permanent repairs in September. During 1908 Manning patrolled the Pacific Coast and assisted in several search and rescue cases.

Typical of a patrol season in the Bering Sea, in 1910 Manning had sailed nearly 15,000 mi (24,000 km) and had boarded 14 Japanese sealers that had entered the three mile limit. After the 1911 North Pacific Sealing convention went into effect, the patrol area was extended to waters north of the thirtieth parallel and the seal population doubled by 1912.

In October 1912, Manning received orders to report to Mare Island Naval Shipyard for drydock repairs which were completed in March 1913. During a trial run with new boilers on 20 May the engines seized up and she received a tow from USRC Golden Gate. After a successful trial on 24 May 1913 she sailed for Alaska.

When the Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Lifesaving Service combined in 1915 to form the new United States Coast Guard, Manning became part of the new service and was thereafter known as USCGC Manning.

World War I

Manning received orders to report to the Coast Guard Depot at Curtis Bay, Maryland 26 January 1917 and departed soon thereafter arriving at the depot 7 March. On 6 April 1917 Manning once again became part of the U.S. Navy for service in World War I and served as one of the components of Squadron 2, Division 6 of the Atlantic Fleet Patrol Forces. On 30 July 1917, Manning along with the cutters Algonquin, Ossipee, Seneca, Tampa, and Yamacraw were ordered to be outfitted for "distant service" in an unspecified region. The six cutters were outfitted with 3-inch guns and depth charge racks and were assigned duty as convoy escorts based at Gibraltar. The six cutters of the squadron immediately assumed wartime duties escorting convoys between Gibraltar and the United Kingdom, and conducting antisubmarine patrols in the Mediterranean Sea. These duties continued until 28 August 1919 when the cutters were turned back to the Coast Guard by executive order.

Post War service

After World War I, the Coast Guard returned to the control of the Department of the Treasury, and in the spring of 1919 the International Ice Patrol, which had been suspended during World War I, was reinaugurated. The annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury for 1921 noted that in the winter of 1920-1921 winter patrols had been reestablished with eight vessels, one of which was Manning. On 18 September 1926 a hurricane hit south Florida and Manning was one of nine cutters sent by Commandant {Frederick C. Billard]] to assist with maintaining order, improvising hospitals, searching for those still missing, and assisting local authorities.

Much of Manning's duty during her final years was out of Norfolk, where she decommissioned on 22 May 1930. On 6 December 1930 she was sold for $2200.02 to Charles L. Jording of Baltimore, Maryland.

Notes

Footnotes

1. An exception was the USCGC Northland which was commissioned 7 May 1927 and was built specifically for Bering Sea Patrol service. The remote duty contemplated by the designers led them to believe that an alternate method of propulsion would be advisable in case there were mechanical failures. Her sail plan was removed in 1936 as unnecessary.

Citations

1. ^ Record of Movements, p 360
2. ^ "Manning, 1898", Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
3. ^ Record of Movements, p 364
4. Canney, p 56
5. Johnson, pp 11–12
6. Johnson, pp 111–112
7. ^ Record of Movements, p 361
8. Record of Movements, p 362
9. King, pp 52–53
10. Record of Movements, pp 362–363
11. "U.S. Coast Guard General Order No.1", Historic Documents & Publications, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
12. "Manning" Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
13. Johnson, p 46
14. Record of Movements, p 364
15. Johnson, p 99

References used

• "U.S. Coast Guard General Order No.1" (pdf). Historic Documents & Publications. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
• "Manning". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
• "Manning, 1898" (pdf). Cutters, Craft & U.S. Coast Guard-Manned Army & Navy Vessels. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
• "Record of Movements, Vessels of the United States Coast Guard, 1790–December 31, 1933" (pdf). U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation (1989 reprint). Retrieved 1 September 2014.
• Canney, Donald L. (1995). U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-101-1.
• Evans, Stephen H. (1949). The United States Coast Guard 1790–1915: A Definitive History. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland.
• Johnson, Robert Irwin (1987). Guardians of the Sea, History of the United States Coast Guard, 1915 to the Present. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-0-87021-720-3.
• King (1996), Irving H. (1996). The Coast Guard Expands, 1865–1915: New Roles, New Frontiers. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-458-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Larzelere, Alex (2003). The Coast Guard in World War I: An Untold Story. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-476-0.
• Strobridge, Truman R. and Dennis L. Noble (1999). Alaska and the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1867–1915. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-845-4.

External links

• Photo gallery at Navsource.org

• United States Revenue Cutter Service
• Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
• 1897 ships