USS Fulton (AS-1)-- Part 1: The Third USS Fulton 1914-1934

From Wikipedia.

I have been writing about the first USS Fulton in my Not So Forgotten: War of 1812 blog.  It was originally named USS Demologos and was designed by Robert Fulton.  When he died, the name was changed in his honor.  It did not see much service.

The second USS Fulton was launched in 1837 and was destroyed during the Civil War and I am writing about that in my Running the Blockade: Civil War Naval Blog.

Well, this i the third USS Fulton, so I figured to go ahead and write about it in my Cooter's History Thing blog, so here goes.

The USS Fulton (AS-1) was a submarine tender launched in 1914 in the early years of the submarine service.  It was reclassified as a gunboat (PG-49) in 1930 and decommissioned in 1934.  It was teh first U.S. Navy ship designed specifically for tending to submarines.

--Cooter

North Carolina Gunboats of the American Revolution

From the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.

North Carolina gunboats fall into three categories:  Revolutionary War, the period of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison administrations and the Confederacy.  I will write about those from the Revolution here.  The War of 1812 and the Civil War will be covered in those blogs.

The Revolutionary War gunboats were armed merchantmen, intended to protect coastal towns.  Three of them, the Pennsylvania Farmer, King Tammany and General Washington were outfitted as guard ships.  They were not staisfactory, so the state went in with Virginia to build two rowing galleys to defend Ocracoke Inlet: the Caswell and the Washington.

The Caswell served at Ocracoke under Captain Willis Wilson from 1778-1779.   Neither galley saw action but did defend trade passing through the inlet. 

In 1790, the worm-riddled Caswell sank at its mooring in New Bern and its crew and weapons transferred to the Washington.

A Revolutionary Affair.  --Cooter