5-439: USCGC Itasca may refer to one of the following United States Coast Guard Cutters : USCGC Itasca (1907) USCGC Itasca (1929) [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with the same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change
10-465: 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 ." With general usage, that term came to define any vessel of the United Kingdom 's HM Customs and Excise and the term was adopted by the U.S. Treasury Department at
15-485: Is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are 65 feet (19.8 m) or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with 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 and the 19th centuries, referred to its ships as cutters . The term
20-636: The creation of what would become the Revenue Marine. Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the service has referred to its vessels with permanently assigned crews as 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). Alternatively known as the system of cutters, Revenue Service, and Revenue-Marine this service
25-487: The link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USCGC_Itasca&oldid=1046800641 " Categories : Set index articles on ships United States Coast Guard ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles United States Coast Guard Cutter United States Coast Guard Cutter
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