What is USRC Vigilant (1791)?
{{italic title}} [[File:USRC Massachusetts (1791).jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|painting of an early Revenue Marine cutter}}]] '''''Vigilant''''' was one of the original ten [[wikt:cutter|cutter]]s{{efn|The term ''cutter'' came from the boats used by [[Great Britain]]'s Royal Customs Service.<ref name=revcuttUSCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/USRC_Photo_Index.asp |title=Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref> Modern Coast Guard cutters are any larger ship no matter what the type.<ref name=revcuttUSCG/>}} built and used by the [[United States Revenue Cutter Service]].{{efn|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.<ref name=cgawUSCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/h_cgatwar.asp |title=The Coast Guard At War |author=Robert Scheina |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name=first10USCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/first_cutters.asp |title=The First Ten Cutters; The first commissioned U.S. Revenue cutters |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> Her name meant: On the alert; watchful.<ref name=vigilant1791>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Vigilant_1791.asp |title=Vigilant, 1791 |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> ''Vigilant'' was [[wikt:launch|launch]]ed in 1791 in [[New York]] and was used to patrol New York waters.<ref name=first10USCG/> == History == Her [[design]] was that of a [[schooner]].<ref name=Smith34>Horatio Davis Smith, ''Early History of the United States Revenue Marine Service'', ed. Elliot Snow (Washi