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The Corwin was named for Thomas Corwin, a well-known mid-nineteenth-century politician who served as Secretary of the Treasury during Millard Fillmore's presidency. She was the second of three Revenue Cutter Service and Coast Guard vessels to bear the name (there was also a patrol boat Cape Corwin).
USRC Thomas Corwin (1876) HMS Discovery (1874) Effie M. Morrissey; HMS Enterprise (1848) HMS Erebus (1826) Fox (ship) Fram (ship) HMS Fury (1814) Icebreaker Fyodor Litke; HMS Griper (1813) USCGC Healy (WAGB-20) HMS Hecla (1815) HMS Investigator (1848) USS Jeannette (1878) Icebreaker Joseph Stalin; Karluk (ship) King & Winge (fishing schooner ...
USRC Thomas Corwin, detachment from USS Adams, marines. Tlingit villagers: Strength; 1 cutter, 1 tug, 1 howitzer, 1 Gatling gun, company of marines: one village: Casualties and losses; none: Six children killed in bombardment An undetermined number of starvation deaths due to loss of winter supplies
Thomas Corwin (July 29, 1794 – December 18, 1865), also known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio. He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the 15th governor of Ohio and the 20th Secretary of the Treasury .
Wrangel Island was discovered and made part of the United States in August 1881 with the landing of famed explorer John Muir and the crew of U. S. Revenue Marine ship Thomas Corwin under the command of Captain Calvin Leighton Hooper. The landing at the mouth of the Clark River was illustrated by Muir in his book The Cruise of the Corwin.
Under the command of Captain Michael A. Healy, the Thomas Corwin made summer patrols to the Bering Sea and Alaskan coast in both 1884 and 1885. The delta and lower part of the Kowak River having been explored by U.S. Navy Lieutenant George M. Stoney in 1883, Cantwell was sent to explore further upriver in the ship's steam launch in 1884.
At around this time, the USRC Thomas Corwin was in Alaskan waters, seeking news of De Long's expedition. [99] Corwin ' s captain, Calvin Hooper, heard stories of a shipwreck in the far north and set off to investigate. [100] For five weeks he circled the Bering Sea; encounters with locals convinced him that the wreck was not that of Jeannette ...
At Herald Island, Berry found out that the crew of the preceding ship, USRC Thomas Corwin, had already covered the island without success. Three days later Berry landed with a party at then still little explored Wrangel Island further to the west and was the first to survey the southern coast and part of the interior, proving that Wrangel was ...