The contract for the construction of Ashuelot was awarded in June or July 1863 to Donald McKay.
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The gunboat sailed for Japan on 3 August 1874 and reached Nagasaki on the 5th to await a party of scientists - headed by the noted American astronomer, Professor James Craig Watson — which had been sent to the Orient to observe the transit of Venus that would take place on 8 December.
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