USRC Argus
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This article is about a revenue cutter. For modern Coast Guard cutter, see USCGC Argus.
USRC Argus was one of the first ten cutters operated by the United States' Revenue Cutter Service (later to become the US Coast Guard). Of the ten cutters, she was the longest to serve in this role.
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Name | Argus |
Namesake | A giant with 100 eyes, from Greek mythology |
Operator | Revenue Cutter Service |
Launched | 1791 |
Commissioned | 1791 |
Decommissioned | 1804 |
Fate | Sold, 1804 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sloop |
Displacement | 48 8/95 Tons |
Length | 47 ft 9 in |
Beam | 16 ft 3 in |
Draft | 6 ft 2 in |
Propulsion | Sail |
Crew | 4 officers, 4 enlisted, 2 boys |
Armament | Probably ten muskets with bayonets; twenty pistols; two chisels; one broad axe. |
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