USRC Apache
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | Apache |
| Namesake | The Apache, the collective term for several culturally related groups of Native Americans originally from the American Southwest (previous name retained) |
| Builder | Reeder and Sons, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Cost | US$95,650 |
| Completed | 1891 |
| Acquired | 1917 (U.S. Navy) |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1891 (as USRC Galveston) |
| Decommissioned | 31 December 1937 |
| Fate | Returned to United States Coast Guard 28 August 1919 |
| Notes | Served as United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter USRC Galveston 1891–1904 and as USRC Apache 1904–1915; served in U.S. Coast Guard as cutter USCGC Apache 1915–1917 and 1919–1937; U.S. Army during World War II; scrapped 1950 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 708 long tons (719 t) |
| Length | 185 ft 3 in (56.46 m) |
| Beam | 29 ft (8.8 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m) (mean) |
| Speed | 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement | 58 |
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USRC Apache was a United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 6 April 1917 to 28 August 1919. During the time she served with the Navy she was known as USS Apache. She was built in 1891 as the United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter USRC Galveston by Reeder and Sons at Baltimore, Maryland. On 30 December 1904, her name was changed to USRC Apache and, upon the creation of the U.S. Coast Guard in 1915, she became USCGC Apache.