USS Fenimore Cooper (1853)
USS Fenimore Cooper (1853) was a schooner assigned as a ship’s tender to accompany a surveying expedition. After departing from Hampton Roads, Virginia, and navigating the Cape of Good Hope, the expedition traveled throughout the Pacific Ocean accumulating hydrographic information from the South China Sea to the Bering Strait in the Arctic and Alaska.
Subsequently, Fenimore Cooper performed supply operations based out of San Francisco, California, before once again returning to her Pacific Ocean survey work, which continued until she was destroyed in a typhoon off Yokohama, Japan.
Read more about USS Fenimore Cooper (1853): Commissioned in 1853, Pacific Ocean Survey Operations, Searching For Survivors, San Francisco Supply Operations, Reassigned To Survey Duty, Lost in A Typhoon
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