First ten Revenue Service cutters

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Class overview
Operators	U.S. Revenue-Marine (later the Revenue Cutter Service)
In service	July 1791 - 1804
In commission	April 1791-1793 - 1792-1804
Completed	10
Retired	10
General characteristics
Type	Revenue Marine cutters
Displacement	35-55 tons
Length	~50 ft
Beam	~25 ft
Draft	~ 6 ft 6 in
Propulsion	Sail
Armament	Muskets, pistols, swivel cannon on some

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 on smuggling. Since the United States Navy had at the time not yet been formed (it was established in 1798), these ten cutters of the newly formed Revenue-Marine therefore represent the United States Government's first official "armed force afloat", as well as being the first seagoing vessels to operate with what would later become the United States Coast Guard.^[1]