U.S Revenue Cutter Service History
Arriving at Washington Navy Yard on 27 July 1865, Delaware was decommissioned there on 5 August and sold on 12 September to the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Commissioned as the USRC Delaware, she served as a Revenue cutter homeported at Galveston, Texas in 1865. In 1868, she underwent extensive repairs at Baltimore, Maryland and was then reassigned to Mobile, Alabama. Delaware was homeported in Pensacola, Florida and renamed the USRC Louis McLane in 1873, honoring the twelfth Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane. In 1877 she served out of Key West, Florida until 23 October 1903, when she was sold to the private sector for $4195. Renamed the Louis Dolive, she operated until 1919, when she was removed from shipping registers. (Canney, 1995), (Lytle-Holdcamper, 1975)
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