Loss
After carrying the Secretary of the Navy on a cruise along the New England coast to review the fleet in August 1891, Despatch put into New York, from which she sailed for Washington on 9 October 1891. Early on the morning of 10 October, in a gale, she was wrecked on Assateague Island off the Virginia coast. With the aid of men from the Assateague Lifesaving Station of the United States Lifesaving Service, all of Despatch's crew got ashore safely.
The wrecked hulk of Despatch was sold for salvage on 12 November.
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