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USCGC Greenbriar
United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard for its ship commissioning, commissioned vessels. They are or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. History of the USCG cutters The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as Cutter (boat), cutters. The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one Mast (sailing), mast and bowsprit, with a Gaff rig, gaff mainsail on a Boom (sailing), boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail."Peter Kemp, ed. (1976). ''The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea''. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 221–222. With general usage, that term came to define any vessel of the United Kingdom's HM Customs and Excise and the term was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Coast Guard Cutters
The United States Coast Guard Cutters were a senior amateur ice hockey team operated by the United States Coast Guard Yard on Curtis Bay, Baltimore. The team played in the Eastern Hockey League, Eastern Amateur Hockey League for parts of two seasons, using Carlin's Iceland for home games. The Cutters were a separate team from the established Coast Guard Bears of the United States Coast Guard Academy. History The team was founded in 1942 by personnel officer Lieutenant Commander C.R. MacLean, of the Coast Guard in Curtis Bay, and replaced the void in the EAHL when the Baltimore Orioles (ice hockey), Baltimore Orioles folded. The Cutters were coached by Mel Harwood, a former goaltender for the Orioles, and a former NHL referee known for officiating game four of the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals. Players were required to complete daytime military duties, in addition to playing on the team. The team was accompanied by their own version of the United States Coast Guard Band, that played t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC Massachusetts (1791)
USRC ''Massachusetts'' was one of the first ten cutters operated by the Revenue-Marine (later to become the US Coast Guard). She was built in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and served out of Boston. ''Massachusetts'' by tradition is held to be the first revenue cutter to enter active service. She was also the first to be decommissioned, having a very short service life of only about 15 months before being sold. Description A contemporary description, provided by the Collector of Customs at Boston, Mr. Benjamin Lincoln to the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, noted: Agreeably to your orders I here send you a description of the Cutter Massachusetts built at Newbury port in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the year 1791. She has on ic: onedeck, two masts her length is sixty feet above her upper deck her depth is seven feet Eight inches, breadth seventeen feet eight inches she measures seventy tons 43/95. She is a square-stern schooner, has quarter badges, an Indi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC Eagle
USRC ''Eagle'' was one of the first ten cutters operated by the United States Revenue-Marine, which later became the United States Revenue Cutter Service and later still became part of the United States Coast Guard. ''Eagle'' has been often misidentified as the cutter ''Pickering'', which was in fact not launched until 1798 (and so was not among the first ten cutters). ''Eagle'' was built in Savannah, Georgia, for service in that state's waters. Savannah remained her homeport throughout her career as a revenue cutter.Canney, p 4 Description The only surviving documentation regarding the cutter ''Eagle'' construction, dimensions, or her rig is a description written when she was sold in 1799: ... that the said ship or vessel has one deck and two masts, and that her length is fifty five feet ten inches, her breadth seventeen feet six inches, her depth six feet eight inches and that she measures fifty five 66/95 tons; that she is square sterned long quarter has Quarter Deck Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USRC South Carolina
USRC ''South Carolina'' was one of the first ten cutters operated by the United States' Revenue Cutter Service (later to become the US Coast Guard). Operational service ''South Carolina'' was not launched until 1793, however, due to the recalcitrance of state officials who were loath to support or enforce the United States' customs and navigation laws. Nevertheless, her Master, Robert Cochran, drew his pay during the time of her construction and so therefore probably chartered a private vessel to conduct patrols until the ''South Carolina'' entered service. He is listed as Master 8 May, 1791. Little is known about this cutter other than that she was a schooner 38 tons burthen. Her journals and official correspondence have not survived and there is little mention of her in local papers. The only incident that garnered published notice was when the governor ordered the cutter to transport a company of soldiers (artillerymen from Fort Johnson) down the waterway to protect a str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
