Schooner San Antonio
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History | |
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Republic of Texas | |
Namesake | San Antonio River |
Builder | Schott and Whitney, Baltimore |
Launched | 1836 |
Commissioned | 27 June 1839 |
Decommissioned | October 1842 |
Renamed | Originally called the Asp |
Homeport | Galveston, Texas |
Fate | Lost at sea |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Schooner |
Displacement | 170 tons |
Length | 66 feet |
Beam | 21.5 |
Draught | 8 ft. |
Propulsion | wind |
Speed | variable |
Complement |
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Armament |
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The Texan schooner San Antonio was a two-masted schooner of the Second Texas Navy from 1839-1840. She was the sister ship of the San Jacinto and the San Bernard. In 1840, San Antonio was part of the Texas Navy flotilla led by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore which was dispatched to assist Yucatecan rebels that had taken up arms against Mexico. In February 1842, while re-provisioning in New Orleans, the crew of the San Antonio mutinied and the Lieutenant was killed. This was the only mutiny in the history of the Texas Navy. That fall, the San Antonio sailed for Campeche and was never heard from again.