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Set of Four (4) US Early Sailing Cutters by John A. Tilley
- Item Number
- 231
- Estimated Value
- 20 USD
- Sold
- 85 USD to mhbfd5cdb
- Number of Bids
- 17 - Bid History
Item Description
Are you -- or do you know -- a naval or military history buff?
These drawings of Early Sailing Cutters, by John A. Tilley, Associate Professor of History at East Carolina University, are reconstructions of four vessels that served in the United States Revenue Cutter Service, the predecessor of the U.S. Coast Guard. Each print measures 11"x17".
EAGLE 1799-1801
LOUISIANA 1819-1824
ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1831-1853
JOSEPH LANE 1849-1869
The "system of cutters," the Revenue Marine, and the Revenue Cutter Service, as it was known variously throughout the nineteenth century, referred to its vessels as cutters. The term, English in origin, refers to a specific type of sailing 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." By general usage, however, that term came to define any vessel of Great Britain's Royal Customs Service. The U.S. Treasury Department adopted that term at the creation of its "system of cutters." Since that time, no matter what the vessel type, the Coast Guard and its illustrious predecessor have referred to their largest vessels as cutters (today a cutter is any Coast Guard vessel over 65 feet in length). During the 18th through early 20th centuries, the cutters were named primarily for secretaries of the Treasury Department and other contemporary political personalities.
John Tilley's primary interests include British naval history and museum studies. Before joining the faculty at East Carolina University, Tilley was an assistant curator at the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
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