A Cutter is a United States Coast Guard vessel 65 feet in length or greater, having adequate accommodations for crew to live on board. Larger cutters (over 180 feet in length) are under control of Area Commands (Atlantic Area or Pacific Area). Cutters at or under 180 feet in length come under control of District Commands. Cutters, usually have a motor surf boat and/or a rigid hull inflatable boat on board. Polar Class Icebreakers also carry an Arctic Survey Boat (ASB) and Landing Craft. The following are lists of current and past cutter types: An American-looking gaff cutter with a genoa jib set This French yawl has a gaff topsail set. ... The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a branch of the United States armed forces involved in maritime law enforcement, mariner assistance, search and rescue, and national defense, among other duties of coast guards elsewhere. ... ASB could refer to: A student organization called the Associated Student Body The furry gay-themed comic book series Associated Student Bodies The Auckland Savings Bank of New Zealand, or ASB Bank The Alternative Service Book of the Church of England. ... Landing craft Rapière LCU 1656 departs USS Bataan (LHD-5) well deck during Hurricane Katrina relief operations. ...

Current Cutters

USCG Ice Breaker Polar Sea

USCG Medium Endurance Cutter Harriet Lane

USCG Inland Construction Tender Saginaw'

• 420' Icebreaker (WAGB)
• 418' Maritime Security Cutter, Large (WMSL)
• 399' Polar Class Icebreaker (WAGB)
• 378' High Endurance Cutter (WHEC)
• 295' Training Barque Eagle (WIX)
• 282' Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
• 270' Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
• 240' Seagoing Buoy Tender Breaker (WLBB)
• 230' Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
• 225' Seagoing Buoy Tender (WLB)
• 213' Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
• 210' Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC)
• 179' Patrol Coastal (WPC)
• 175' Coastal Buoy Tender (WLM)
• 160' Inland Construction Tender (WLIC)
• 140' Icebreaking Tug (WTGB)
• 123' Patrol Boat (WPB)
• 110' Patrol Boat (WPB)
• 100' Inland Buoy Tender (WLI)
• 100' Inland Construction Tender (WLIC)
• 87' Coastal Patrol Boat (WPB)
• 75' River Buoy Tender (WLR)
• 75' Inland Construction Tender (WLIC)
• 65' River Buoy Tender (WLR)
• 65' Inland Buoy Tender (WLI)
• 65' Small Harbor Tug (WYTL)

Historic Cutters US Coast Guard icebreakers near McMurdo Station, February 2002 Icebreaker Polarstern An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice-covered marine environments. ... Categories: Ship types ... Categories: Ship types ...

USCG Buoy Tender Firebush

USCG Cutter Durant

• 327' Treasury Class Cutter (WPG)
• 311' Casco Class Cutter (WAVP)
• 306' Edsall Class (WDE)
• 255' Owasco Class Cutter (WPG)
• 250' Lakes Class Cutter
• 240' Tampa Class Cutter
• 213' Diver Class Cutter (WAT)
• 205' Navaho Class Auxiliary Tug (WAT)
• 180' Seagoing Buoy Tender (WLB)
• 180' Oceanographic Vessel (WAGO)
• 165' Thetis Class Patrol Boat (WPC)
• 165' Algonquin Class Patrol Boat (WPG)
• 125' Active Class Patrol Boat (WSC)
• 110' Calumet Class Harbor Tug (WYTM)
• 110' Apalachee Class Harbor Tug (WYT)

USCGC Duane with her Grumman JF-2 Duck clearly visible towards the rear. ...

History of the Cutter

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. The term is English in origin and refers to a specific type of vessel, namely, "a small, decked ship with one mast and bowsprit, with a gaff mainsail on a boom, a square yard and topsail, and two jibs or a jib and a staysail." (Peter Kemp, editor, The Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea; London: Oxford University Press, 1976; pp. 221-222.) By general usage, that term came to define any vessel of Great Britain's Royal Customs Service and the term was adopted by the U.S. Treasury Department at the creation of what would become the Revenue Marine. Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the service has referred to its largest vessels as cutters (today a cutter is any Coast Guard vessel over 65-feet in length). (CG Historians' Office) The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790 as an armed maritime law enforcement service. ... A mast is a pole which holds a sail of a boat, see mast (sailing). ... Bowsprit of the Falls of Clyde, showing the dolphin striker, the use of chain for the bobstays, and three furled jibs. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Gaff rig. ... A mainsail is the most important sail raised from the main (or only) mast of a sailing vessel. ... Boom may refer to: Look up boom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A topsail is a sail set above another sail; on square-rigged vessels further sails may be set above topsails. ... A staysail is a fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff is affixed to a stay running forward (and most often but not always downwards) from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast. ... The United States Department of the Treasury is a Cabinet department, a treasury, of the United States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government. ...

The First Ten Cutters

In 1790, Congress authorized the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, to create a maritime service to enforce customs laws (1 Stat. L. 145, 175; 4 August 1790). Alternately known as the system of cutters, Revenue Service, and Revenue-Marine this service would officially be named the Revenue Cutter Service (12 Stat. L., 639) in 1863. This service was placed under the control of the Treasury Department.

• USRC Vigilant (Vigilant)
• USRC Active (Active)
• USRC General Green (General Green)
• USRC Massachusetts (Massachusetts)
• USRC Scammel (Scammel)
• USRC Argus (Argus)
• USRC Virginia (Virginia)
• USRC Diligence (Diligence)
• USRC South Carolina (South Carolina)
• USRC Eagle (Eagle)