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    The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an act of Congress (1 Stat. 175) on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine upon the recommendation...
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    passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915. The concept of assistance to shipwrecked...
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  • The history of the United States Coast Guard goes back to the United States Revenue Cutter Service, which was founded on 4 August 1790 as part of the...
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    became the Revenue Cutter Academy, and then the Coast Guard Academy in 1915 with the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving...
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    accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. The Revenue Marine and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the late 18th...
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    USS Pickering (category Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service)
    brig, the 1st brig built for the UCRC Service, in the United States Revenue Cutter Service and then the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France...
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  • United States Revenue Cutter Service Merged with the United States Life-Saving Service in 1915 to create the United States Coast Guard United States Revenue-Marine...
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  • of the shifts and the service of the air-navigation personnel. The rank of senior captain was used by the Revenue Cutter Service to denote a rank equivalent...
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    The first ten Revenue Service cutters were ten oceangoing cutters built at the behest of the 1st United States Congress in the early 1790s to crack down...
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  • Armed Forces and formerly used in the United States Revenue Cutter Service and its successor, the United States Coast Guard. Captain-commandant is a company...
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    Hopley Yeaton (category United States Revenue Cutter Service officers)
    the Constitution of the United States by George Washington into the Revenue-Marine (later known as the Revenue Cutter Service), one of the forerunners...
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    Frank H. Newcomb (category United States Revenue Cutter Service officers)
    Hamilton Newcomb (10 November 1846 – 20 February 1934) was a United States Revenue Cutter Service commodore, best known for his actions at the Battle of Cárdenas...
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  • The United States Revenue Cutter Service, which merged with the United States Lifesaving Service in January 1915 to form the modern United States Coast...
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    commissioned via the United States Coast Guard Academy or its predecessor, the School of Instruction of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. Prior to the...
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    Leonard G. Shepard (category Commandants of the United States Coast Guard)
    United States Revenue Cutter Service and was appointed in 1889 by Secretary of the Treasury William Windom as the first military head of the service since...
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    USS McCulloch (category Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service)
    as a United States Revenue Cutter Service cutter from 1897 to 1915, as a United States Coast Guard Cutter from 1915 to 1917, and as a United States Navy...
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  • Model 1852 Naval Officers Sword (category Swords of the United States)
    Civil War. It was the same style used by officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. The requirement for US Navy officers to have swords was suspended...
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  • USS Aaron V. Brown (category Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service)
    General Aaron V. Brown, the only cutter to bear the name. On 11 November 1856, the United States Revenue Cutter Service put out a contract for the construction...
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    USRC Harriet Lane (category Cutters of the United States Navy)
    Lane was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil War, a ship of the United States Navy and...
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    William E. Reynolds (category United States Revenue Cutter Service officers)
    of his time aboard various vessels in the Revenue Cutter Service and its successor agency, the United States Coast Guard. He took an active interest in...
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    USRC Eagle (category First ten Revenue Service cutters)
    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...
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  • John A. Henriques (category United States Revenue Cutter Service officers)
    1906) was a United States Revenue Cutter Service officer that was noted for helping form the establishment of the Revenue Cutter Service School of Instruction...
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    The service did not even have a proper name for three-quarters of a century until 1863 when Congress voted to name them the "Revenue Cutter Service." The...
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    USCGC Unalga (category Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service)
    USCGC Unalga (WPG-53) was a Miami-class cutter that served in the United States Revenue Cutter Service and later the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy. The...
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  • USS Grant (category United States Navy ship names)
    from 1864 to 1865 USRC Grant, a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue-Marine and United States Revenue Cutter Service, in commission from 1872 to 1906...
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    USS Bancroft (1892) (category Gunboats of the United States Navy)
    the United States Revenue Cutter Service from 1907 to 1915 as the revenue cutter USRC Itasca, and in the Revenue Cutter Service's successor service, the...
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  • (later United States Coast Guard) cutter USS James Madison, one United States Navy guided-missile submarine and one United States Revenue Cutter Service (later...
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    Washington (1837) (category Ships of the United States Revenue Cutter Service)
    Washington was a revenue cutter that served in the United States Revenue-Marine and in the United States Navy. She discovered, boarded, and captured La...
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    Frederick C. Billard (category United States Revenue Cutter Service officers)
    Instruction of the Revenue Cutter Service in 1894. He served as an aide to two commandants, was the superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy...
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    Charles F. Shoemaker (category Commandants of the United States Coast Guard)
    in the United States Revenue Cutter Service and was appointed in 1895 by Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle to be Chief of the Revenue Marine...
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