USS Pickering
USRC Pickering, later renamed USS Pickering | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | USS Pickering |
| Laid down | 1798 |
| Commissioned | 22 August 1798 |
| Fate | Lost 1800 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Topsail schooner |
| Displacement | 187 long tons (190 t) |
| Length | 77 ft (23 m) |
| Beam | 20 ft (6.1 m) |
| Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Complement | 70 officers and enlisted or 90. |
| Armament | 14 × 4-pounder guns |
USS Pickering was the first brig built for the United States Revenue Cutter Service which later served with the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France. She was named for Timothy Pickering, then the Secretary of State.
USRC Pickering was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1798 for the Revenue Cutter Service. Captain Jonathan Chapman was her first commander. Taken into the Navy in July at the outbreak of the Quasi-War, she departed Boston on her first cruise on 22 August.