USS Tuscarora

USS Tuscarora

Ship data flag  United States Ship type Sloop Shipyard Merrick and Sons, Philadelphia Launch August 24, 1861 Commissioning December 5, 1861 Whereabouts Sold in 1883

Ship dimensions and crew length 60.5 m ( Lüa ) width 10.1 m Draft Max. 4.52 m displacement 1,480 t

Machine system machine Steam engine Top speed 11 kn (20 km / h)

Rigging and rigging Rigging Full ship Number of masts 3

Armament 2 × 28.0 cm Dahlgren cannons 6 × 32 pounder cannons 1 × 30 pounder Parrot cannons

The USS Tuscarora was a United States sloop that carried out numerous deep-sea explorations in the northern Pacific under Rear Admiral George Belknap in 1874 to find a practical way to lay a deep-sea cable between the United States and Japan .

The Tuscarora began its voyage near San Diego on the California coast , touched Honolulu in Hawaii and Port Lloyd (today's Futami Port) on the Bonin Islands and reached Yokohama on April 22, 1874.

On the journey home on June 8th, the line of the largest district from Yokohama to Cape Flattery (near Vancouver ) was taken; However, depths of over 4000 m were found which are unsuitable for laying the deep-sea cable due to the underwater pressure . So they went back to Japan and chose a more northerly way back.

Near the Japanese coast, the greatest sea depth measured up to that point, the so-called Tuscarora depth, was plumbed .

literature

• Hydrographic Office [Ed.]: Deep sea soundings in the North Pacific, obtained in the USS Tuscarora, comm. George E. Belknap . Washington 1874.