USRC General Green

History
United States
Name	General Green
Operator	Revenue Cutter Service
Launched	7 July 1791
Completed	5 August 1791[1]
Commissioned	1791
Decommissioned	1797
Fate	Sold December 1797
General characteristics
Class and type	Schooner
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	4 officers, 4 enlisted, 2 boys
Armament	Ten muskets with bayonets; twenty pistols; two chisels; one broad axe.

USRC General Green was one of the first ten cutters operated by the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. She was named for the Revolutionary War hero Major General Nathanael Greene. Her name was misspelled, probably by the man who oversaw her construction, the Collector of Customs in Philadelphia, Sharp Delany. Apparently the cutter was to have been originally named for the Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, but Delany changed the name for reasons unknown.