USRC Scammel (1791)
Scammel was one of the original ten cutters[a] built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.[b][3] The Schammel was named by Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, after the American Revolutionary War Adjutant general of the army, Alexander Scammell.[4] General Scammell was captured by the British at the Battle of Yorktown and shot.[5] As with the USRC ''General Green'' (1791), the name is misspelled.[4] The Scammel was built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire and launched in 1791. She was used to patrol New England waters.[4]
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History
changeThe Scammel was built at Portsmouth but problems delayed her construction. She was not launched until a month after the USRC General Green (1791), on August 24, 1791.[3] She was to be stationed at Portsmouth and her patrol area was from Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Passamaquoddy Bay in Maine.[6] Her first master was Hopley Yeaton, the first seagoing officer to be commissioned in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service.[6] John Parrott was the second mate while John Adams was third mate. Originally Hamilton had some difficulty in finding a first mate when the Scammel went into service. In November 1792, John Adams was promoted to first mate and Benjamin Gunnerson became the new second mate.[7] The first-named cutter Scammel was sold Sold on 16 August 1798.[8]
Description
changeScammel was a schooner which was built at a cost of $1,225.65.[8] She displaced about 51 short tons (46 t)[8] She was 57 feet 12 inches (17.68 m) long by 15 feet 8 inches (4.78 m) wide and had a draft of 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m).[9] She had a crew of four officers, four enlisted men and two cabin boys.[8] Her arms included 10 muskets and 20 pistols.[8]
Related pages
changeNotes
change- ↑ The term cutter came from the boats used by Great Britain's Royal Customs Service.[1] Modern Coast Guard cutters are any larger ship no matter what the type.[1]
- ↑ Also called the Revenue Marine. Together with the United States Life-Saving Service, the United States Revenue Cutter Service formed the United States Coast Guard on 28 January 1915.[2]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ↑ Robert Scheina. "The Coast Guard At War". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The First Ten Cutters; The first commissioned U.S. Revenue cutters". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "1790 - 1915: Revenue Cutters, The First Ten". Coast Guard Modeling. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ↑ "Alexander Scammell, the Lovesick Revolutionary War Hero". New England Historical Society. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "New England's Hopley Yeaton: Father of the U.S. Coast Guard". New England Historical Society. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ↑ Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, ed. Harold C. Syrett (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1967), p, 275
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 "Scammel, 1791". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ↑ Paul H. Silverstone, The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854 (London; New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 77