USCS Robert J. Walker (1844)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCS Robert J. Walker was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from 1848 to 1860. Robert J. Walker was built in 1844 by Joseph Tomlinson at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She entered Coast Survey service in 1848. Robert J. Walker suffered deaths among her crew in 1852 when two men -- her second and third assistant engineers -- died of disease during an epidemic along the United States Gulf Coast. On the night of 20 January 1858, Robert J. Walker was at Pensacola, Florida...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USCS Robert J. Walker was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from 1848 to 1860. Robert J. Walker was built in 1844 by Joseph Tomlinson at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She entered Coast Survey service in 1848. Robert J. Walker suffered deaths among her crew in 1852 when two men -- her second and third assistant engineers -- died of disease during an epidemic along the United States Gulf Coast. On the night of 20 January 1858, Robert J. Walker was at Pensacola, Florida, when a major fire broke out at the United States Army's Fort Pickens. Her men and boats, along with the hydrographic party of the Coast Survey steamer USCS Varina, promptly assisted in fighting the fire. The next day, Robert J. Walker's commanding officer received a communication from Captain John Newton of the Army Corps of Engineers, commanding the harbor of Pensacola, acknowledging the important firefighting service rendered by Robert J. Walker.
