USRC Erie
{{Short description|Ship of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service}}
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{{Infobox ship image |Ship image= |Ship caption= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United States |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|coast guard}} |Ship name=USRC Erie |Ship namesake=Lake Erie |Ship homeport=Presque Isle, Pennsylvania |Ship ordered= |Ship builder=John Justice{{cite web |title=Erie, 1833 |publisher=United States Coast Guard |access-date=2008-08-06 |url=http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Erie1833.html}} |Ship original cost=$3,600 |Ship launched=March 1833{{cite book |last=Bates |first=Samuel |title=History of Erie County, Pennsylvania |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924096783489 |publisher=Warner, Beers and Co |year=1884 |location=Erie, PA}} |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship honours= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Sold (1849) |Ship notes= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship displacement=60 tons |Ship length= |Ship beam= |Ship draught= |Ship draft= |Ship hold depth= |Ship propulsion= |Ship sail plan=Schooner-rigged |Ship complement= |Ship armament=*1×6 pounder
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The USRC Erie was a United States Revenue Cutter stationed at Presque Isle in Erie, Pennsylvania. It replaced the USRC Benjamin Rush on the Great Lakes. Daniel Dobbins supervised the construction of and was in command of the USRC Erie from 1833 to 1841.{{cite journal |last=Severance |first=Frank H |title=The Career of Daniel Dobbins |journal=Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society |volume=VIII |publisher=Buffalo Historical Society |year=1905 |pages=277}} Dobbins was placed back in command of the USRC Erie in 1845. USRC Erie was active in the prevention of the violation of United States neutrality during the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and was placed under the control of the United States War Department in April 1839.
USRC Erie was sold in Erie on 31 July 1849 for $684.
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Category:Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service
Category:Rebellions of 1837–1838
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