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	1862 Regulations of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
		The organization of the revenue service, and a general outline of the duties of the persons employed in it, are contained in the act (known as the Collection Act) of 2d March, 1799, particularly in the 98th, 99th, 100th, and 101st sections.
		Whenever any vessel is captured or seized by a revenue cutter, it shall be the duty of the commanding officer thereof to carefully preserve all the papers and writings found oil board the prize, and to transmit the whole of the originals, unmutilated, to the collector of customs of the port, in conformity to law.
		Crews of revenue vessels are to be mustered at quarters at nine or half-past nine o'clock a.
	www.uscg.mil /hq/g-cp/history/1862.html (11844 words)

	United States Revenue Cutter Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790 as an armed maritime law enforcement service.
		Revenue Cutters were assigned to enforce the very unpopular Embargo Act of 1807, which outlawed nearly all European trade, import and export, through American ports.
		The small Revenue Cutter Surveyor with a crew of 16 and an armament of merely six 12 pound (5 kg) carronades, was anchored in the York River on the night of June 12, 1813, when a 90-man boarding party from the British frigate HMS Narcissus attacked her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Revenue_Cutter_Service (1265 words)

	Revenue Cutter Hudson, Cardenas, Cuba.
		Revenue cutters had been plying the Flordia Straits since 1891 to enforce the embargo against weapons being shipped to the Cuban Rebels.
		Nearly all the cutters were unarmed or underarmed with obsolete weapons at the beginning of the war.
		Configured as many harbor tugs of the period, she was 128 tons, 96 feet long, 20 feet in the beam, with a 8 foot draft, the 24-inch stroke of her pistons made her slow, her superstructure was high out of the water topped with a large smoke stack.
	www.aug.edu /~libwrw/others/Hudson/hudson.htm (1941 words)

	Congressional Medal of Honor - African Americans in the United States Coast Guard
		The Revenue Cutter Service, forerunner of the Coast Guard, was established in 1790 under the Department of the Treasury.
		The service is also to minimize loss of life and property, personal injury and property damage at sea in U.S. waters; enforce U.S. laws and international agreements of the United States; ensure the safety and security of maritime transportation, ports, waterways and shore facilities.
		Illustrating this mission, the revenue cutters stationed at South Atlantic coast ports and operating under the authority of the Acts of March 2, 1807 and March 3, 1819, captured numerous vessels with almost 500 persons to be sold as slaves.
	www.medalofhonor.com /CoastGuardAfricanAmericans.htm (5645 words)

	United States Coast Guard Flag - Veterans Flag Depot
		These agencies, the Revenue Cutter Service, the Lighthouse Service, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of Navigation, and the Lifesaving Service, were originally independent, but had overlapping authorities and were shuffled around the government.
		The multiple missions and responsibilities of the modern Service are directly tied to this diverse heritage and the magnificent achievements of all of these agencies.
		In 1885 the Revenue Cutter Service cooperated with the Bureau of Fisheries in connection with "propagation of food fishes." Twenty years later, cutters enforced the regulations governing the landing, delivery, cure, and sale of sponges in the Gulf of Mexico.
	veteransflagdepot.us /images/military-flags/coast-guard.html (1812 words)

	Coast Guard Cutters
		Cutters at or under 180 feet in length come under control of District Commands, except for Patrol Boats that come under the control of the Group Commands.
		The high and medium endurance cutters, which are under the control of the Area Commands, are used for conducting law enforcement and defense operations, marine science and search and rescue missions and coastal surveillance.
		The predecessor of the Coast Guard -- 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 cutters.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ship/cutter.htm (1210 words)

	CG Aviation History
		Revenue Cutter Service supporters within the federal government, the press, and the general public fought the move to eliminate the Service.
		The Revenue Marine was established in 1790 to enforce the tariff and all other maritime laws and until 1798 was the only armed military service of the United States.
		The Revenue Marine was renamed the Revenue Cutter Service in 1862.
	uscgaviationhistory.aoptero.org /history01.html (19666 words)

	Frank Hamilton Newcomb, Commodore, United States Revenue Cutter Service
		Commanding cutter Hudson on blockade off Cuba in the Spanish-American War, he engaged Spanish gunboats in the harbor at Cardenas 11 May 1898 and towed Wilmington to safety after her steering gear had been shot away.
		Joint Resolution Recognizing the gallantry of Frank H. Newcomb, commanding the revenue cutter Hudson; of his officers and men; also retiring Captain Caniel B. Hodgsdon, of the Revenue Cutter Service, for efficient and meritorious services in command of the cutter Hugh McCulloch at Manila.
		The Cardenas Medal of Honor commemorates the gallantry of the officers and men of the Revenue Cutter Hudson who, in the face of enemy fire during the Spanish-American War, towed the USS Winslow out of range of the enemy guns at Cardenas harbor on May 11, 1898.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /fhnewcomb.htm (730 words)

	Coast Guard Decorations
		On August 4, 1790, Congress authorized their purchase along with the formation of a "Revenue Marine." It would be variously known as "Revenue Service," "Revenue Marine," and "Revenue Cutter Service," until an Act of Congress on 31 July 1894, officially designated the last name as the only correct one.
		From the beginning Hamilton insisted that officers of the new Service be given military rank, and another precedent was established: during the French and Indian Wars (1798-1800) and the War of 1812, the revenue cutters operated under control of the Navy.
		Revenue Cutters began to enforce other laws as well, including those that regulated navigation and prohibited piracy and the slave trade.
	foxfall.com /fmd-uscg.htm (1048 words)

	EP Bertholf's Letter of Service
		He entered the Revenue-Cutter Service as a cadet on September 14, 1885; graduated and was appointed a third lieutenant on June 12, 1889.
		In 1897 he was a member of the relief party which in mid-winter made the famous over-land trip to Point Barrow, the northernmost point of the American continent for the relief of over two hundred American whalers whose vessels had been crushed in the ice and who were reported to be in danger of starvation.
		In the winter of 1901, the then Lieutenant Bertholf made, at the request of the Bureau of Education, a trip across northern Siberia by sledge for the purpose of purchasing a new herd of reindeer for use of the natives in Northern Alaska.
	members.tripod.com /~Scott_Michaud/Bertholf-service.html (463 words)

	TEA: Carvellas- -- 8.17.2002
		Yesterday I told you that the U.S. Coast Guard was originally known as the Revenue Cutter Service.
		One of the early captains in the Revenue Cutter Service was Michael Healy for whom the USCGC Healy is named.
		When gold was discovered in Alaska, the Marine Revenue Service needed all officers and they offered Captain Healy another command at the age of 60.
	tea.armadaproject.org /carvellas/8.17.2002.html (990 words)

	U.S. Revenue Cutter Service
		This was the precedent that would temporarily transfer the Revenue Cutter Service to the Secretary of the Navy and her cutters to serve under the command of the United States Navy in time of war.
		The most well-known actions involving the vessels of the Revenue Cutter Service are the actions of the HUGH McCULLOCH and the HUDSON.
		She was altered for naval service, and after completion of the alterations, patrolled the northeast coast of the U.S. She ceased naval service on August 17, 1898.
	www.spanamwar.com /USRCS.htm (2461 words)

	Blitzkrieg Baby
		Although the Revenue Marine was not part of the US Navy, its flotilla of cutters constantly engaged in offshore patrol duties and even attacked French privateers.
		Throughout the war, the service's gallant flotilla of steamers, tugs, yachts and oceangoing vessels isolated Confederate forts, freed endangered coastal slaves, and landed Union Army troops at critical points along the enemy-held southern coast.
		By the time that the terrible war ended, the "Revenue Cutter Service" (as it was popularly called) had emerged as champions of human liberty.
	www.blitzkriegbaby.de /spars/spars1.htm (814 words)

	The USS Coast Guard Cutter Bear (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Several cutters were based in San Francisco and Oakland, but every spring they would make their way up the coast to Washington State before striking out across the open sea for the Aleutians.
		These were the prime seal rookeries, and the Revenue Service waged a constant and often unsuccessful battle against illegal seal hunting.
		In 1915 the Revenue Cutter service became part of the Coast Guard, and Bear became USCGC Bear.
	mill-valley.freemasonry.biz /bear (1798 words)

	Mass Moments: Revenue Cutter Service School Established in New Bedford
		The following year, Congress ordered the Revenue Service to cooperate with the newly established Navy in times of war or when so directed by the President — a mandate that is still in force today.
		The first war in which the Revenue Service saw action was the War of 1812.
		The Service had acquired another mission in 1831, when Secretary of the Treasury Louis McLane determined that it was "proper to combine with the ordinary duties of the Cutters that of assisting vessels found on the Coast in distress, and of ministering to the wants of their crews."
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=222 (879 words)

	Uniforms & Buttons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Commissioned officers in the Revenue Cutter Service and early Coast Guard were required, with their full dress uniforms, to wear a rigid chapeau, or “fore-and-aft” hat.
		In 1910, President Taft directed that the flag used by the Revenue Cutter Service be distinguished from that flown ashore by the addition of the RCS badge on the fly.
		The most recent change to the Customs Service ensign was the 1951 redesign of the national coat of arms to conform to the rendering on the great seal of the United States.
	www.lighthouseantiques.net /uniforms/uniforms.html (10542 words)

	Military Order of Foreign Wars
		The Medal Commemorating Maritime Protection of the New Republic was licensed by the Military Order of Foreign Wars to recognize the contribution of the Revenue Cutter Service, predecessor of the United States Coast Guard, in securing the maritime borders of the United States in the earliest years of the Republic.
		This medal commemorates the service and dedication of the Revenue Cutter Service, which held sole responsibility for the protection of the national maritime enterprise between 1790 and 1797.
		This combination was taken from the original Revenue Cutter Service ensign (authorized in 1799) that consisted of "sixteen perpendicular stripes, alternate red and white, the Union of the Ensign to be the Arms of the Untied States in dark blue, on a white Field."
	foxfall.com /mofw-cm-mpnr.htm (808 words)

	Haze Gray & Underway Photo Feature: The Cutter Bear
		Originally built as a sealing ship, she served the United States as a rescue vessel, a revenue cutter, a Coast Guard cutter, a polar exploration vessel, and an Arctic patrol ship during a career of unmatched length.
		She was in the service of the US Government for nearly 60 years, and she survived to be nearly 90 years old.
		Following the conclusion of her Bering Sea service, Bear became a museum at Oakland, near her old winter home, and was owned by the City of Oakland.
	www.hazegray.org /features/bear (1990 words)

	Navy League of the United States - Citizens in Support of the Sea Services
		As the first Secretary of the Treasury in 1789, Alexander Hamilton saw the need to "employ boats for the security of Revenue against contraband." Between 1790 and 1791, 10 schooners--36 to 40 feet in length at their keels--were fitted out with swivel guns and assigned to ports along the eastern seaboard.
		The revenue cutters, manned by experienced seamen, proved invaluable and were placed into naval service.
		The Revenue Cutter Service vessels played a major role in clearing the seas of the threat to American commerce.
	www.navyleague.org /sea_power/aug_01_12.php (648 words)

	Captain Michael Healy, Revenue Cutter Service - ExploreNorth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The early cruises of Revenue Service cutters in Alaskan waters are legendary for the extent of the voyages, the conditions they were conducted under, and the bravery of the crews.
		In September 1863, he joined the Revenue Cutter Service, and with a great deal of help from lobbying efforts by family contacts, he was commissioned as third lieutenant in January 1865.
		Although he was acquited in the 1890 trial, 25 officers of the Revenue Cutter Service proferred charges against him in 1895, and it was clearly proved that Healy did indeed have a drinking problem.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/yafeatures/bl-healy.htm (1624 words)

	The United States Life-Saving Service
		By the time the USLSS merged with the Revenue Cutter Service in 1915 to form the U.S. Coast Guard, there was a network of over 270 stations covering the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf Coasts, and along the Great Lakes.
		The Service’s boats were either a 700 to 1,000 pound, self-bailing, self-righting surfboat pulled by six surfmen with twelve to eighteen foot oars, or a two to four ton lifeboat.
		A glance at the muster rolls of the Service shows that most surfmen listed their occupations before entering the Life-Saving Service as "fisherman" or "mariner." The number of men composing a crew was determined by the number of oars needed to pull the largest boat at the station.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /lifesaving.html (4528 words)

	LIGHTSHIP SAILORS
		In 1897, he was appointed inspector of the first and second districts of the lifesaving service.
		He was appointed captain of the Revenue Cutter Service on June 3, 1902; captain-commandant on April 25, 1908; and chief of the Coast Guard on April 1, 1905 holding this position until he voluntarily retired because of ill health in 1911.
		He personally commanded the fleet of Revenue Cutters in the Gulf of Mexico, enforcing sanitary regulations and quarantines during the yellow fever epidemic of 1905.
	www.uscglightshipsailors.org /new_page_18.htm (924 words)

	Revenue Cutter Service (U.S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1790 Alexander Hamilton formed the Revenue Cutter Service for the express purpose of enforcing the customs laws.
		In contrast, the other armed services are prohibited by law from conducting law enforcement activities, except as authorized by Congress on a limited basis.
		In 1915, the Revenue Cutter Service and the Lifesaving Service were merged to form the Coast Guard under its modern name.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/us^rvctr.html (91 words)

	Revenue Cutter Service (1790)
		The collection of revenues arising from customs fees and tariffs was one of the ways the new federal government could raise the money required to run the government; there was no income tax in those days!
		On 1 July 1797, Congress authorized the president to "increase the strength of the several Revenue Cutters.
		Over the ensuing decades, other national purposes were served by our revenue cutters—specifically, enhancing the preservation of life by rescuing the shipwrecked, and promoting safe transportation by supporting the lighthouse establishment.
	ils.unc.edu /~britd/Guard/revenue.htm (560 words)

	DefenseLINK: Armed Forces Day History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		August 4 is celebrated as Coast Guard Day to honor the establishment on that day in 1790 of the Revenue Cutter Service, forebear of today's Coast Guard, by the Treasury Department.
		On that date, Congress, guided by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, authorized the building of a fleet of ten cutters, whose responsibility would be enforcement of the first tariff laws enacted by Congress under the Constitution.
		The Lighthouse Service joined the Coast Guard in 1939, followed in 1946 by the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection.
	www.defenselink.mil /afd/military/coastgrd.html (233 words)

	Military.com Content
		His official biography encapsulates most of his long career in one sentence: “He served through all grades of the Service, on ships stationed along various parts of the coast of the United States and Alaska.” The brief summarization is probably seen as necessary because of the two remarkable relief missions in which Bertholf took part.
		After the Alaska purchase, what for many years would be known as the Bering Sea Patrol sailed revenue cutters in and out of the frigid, foggy Bering Straits.
		The cutter Bear, recently returned from Bering Sea Patrol duties, struck out in late November from Port Townsend, Wash. Ship’s captain Francis Tuttle brought his vessel as far as Cape Vancouver, Alaska, and then put a party ashore to buy a herd of reindeer and bring them to the near-starving whalers.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_bertholf_bkp (460 words)

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