USRC Snohomish (1908)
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The USRC ''Snohomish'' was a seagoing tug built at the specific direction of Congress by Pusey & Jones,
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for service on the Pacific Northwest coast. She was fitted with latest lifesaving and property saving equipment available at the time of her construction and originally cost $189,000.Canney, p 66 She was commissioned by the
United States Revenue Cutter Service The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an Act of Congress () on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine at the recommendation of the nation's first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. The federal government bod ...
on 15 November 1908 and arrived at her homeport of
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by way of passage around
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in 1909. ''Snohomish'' was a regular part of the Bering Sea Patrol and enforced international sealing regulations. Her duties included search and rescue, law enforcement, fisheries patrol, mail delivery to light ships and remote stations, patrolling regattas, and towing disabled vessels. She served her entire career in the Pacific Northwest and was decommissioned and sold 1 December 1934.


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The
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commissioned a second vessel, the USCGC ''Snohomish'' (WYTM-98) in 1944.


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