Squiter is correct - it was Modoc. Both Comanche and Modoc were former Navy ATR/ATA's.

oooondctwt

She was assigned to the 9th Naval District and served out of St. Louis, Missouri and Chattanooga, Tennessee where she serviced aids to navigation for 650 miles of the Tennessee River above the Kentucky Dam

The stern paddlewheeler USCGC Cottonwood WAGL-209: Originally an Army Corps of Engineers' river tug named Le Claire that was built in 1915. She was acquired by the Lighthouse Service in 1938 and renamed Cottonwood. She was stationed at St. Louis and then Chattanooga while in Coast Guard service. She serviced ATON for 650 miles of the Tennessee River above the Kentucky Dam. She was decommissioned in 1946 and sold the following year.

rroonnithcaal


The ________________ purchased in 1792 for use as a revenue cutter, was not one of the first ten cutters asked for by Alexander Hamilton

Revenue cutter NORTH CAROLINA

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maybe a ship maybe a cutter

Hint

1945-1965: LV-116

WLV-538 "Chesapeake"
http://www.uscg.mil/history/CHESAPEAKE.html

Were Lightships considered as Cutters,? all Coast Guard vessels over 65 feet in lenght are Cutters.

That's "today's" definition. I'm not sure the lightships were considered cutters in their heyday.

http://www.uscg.mil/history/FAQS/Designations.html

The 1980s until the end 1985 the title was USCGC Lightship Nantucket 1. Someone may chime in with an earlier timeline.

Cutters or not

After reading some history of the Lightships,the sever weather conditions they endured,the crews could/should qualify for the Cutterman's Insignia.

assziag

1863- USRC _________ defended Fort Anderson at New Bern, North Carolina, from a Confederate attack

AGASSIZ
http://www.uscg.mil/history/WEBCUTTERS/Agassiz1927.html

USRC Agassiz in service 1861-65

I was going to ask for a source.

Ah so papa san

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~vandy-1/revenue%20cutters2.htm

no habla...

She was assigned to CG Squadron One, Division 11, Vietnam, from July 1965 to May 1970.

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