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USCGC Tampa
USCGC ''Tampa'' has been the name of four cutters of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and United States Coast Guard: * , served as cutter USRC ''Miami'' in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1912-1915, as Coast Guard cutter USCGC ''Miami'' 1915-1916, as Coast Guard cutter USCGC ''Tampa'' 1916-1917, and in the U.S. Navy as USS ''Tampa'' 1917-1918, and was sunk by a German submarine in 1918. * , a cutter that served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1921 to 1941, and in the U.S. Navy as from 1941 to 1947. * , a active 1947 to 1954, originally the * , a medium endurance cutter commissioned in 1984 and active today. See also * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tampa United States Coast Guard ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Coast Guard Cutter
United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. They are or greater in length and have a permanently assigned crew with accommodations aboard. They carry the ship prefix USCGC. History of the USCG cutters 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 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 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 crew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
