USRC Vigilant (1791)
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Vigilant (launched 1791) was one of the original ten cutters employed by the Federal government of the United States which made up the Revenue Marine, or Revenue Cutter Service, later to become the United States Coast Guard.
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Name | Vigilant |
Operator | Revenue Cutter Service |
Launched | March 1791 |
Commissioned | 1791 |
Decommissioned | 14 November 1798 |
Fate | Sold, 14 November 1798 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 35 Tons |
Length | 48 ft (15 m) (keel) |
Beam | 17 ft (5.2 m) |
Draft | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 4 officers |
Crew | 4 crewmen, 2 boys |
Armament | Probably ten muskets with bayonets; twenty pistols; two chisels; one broad axe. |
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