What is USRC Argus?
{{italic title}} [[File:Rigging-sloop-berm-str.svg|thumb|right|200px|{{Center|Diagram of a sloop}}]] '''USRC ''Argus (1791)''''' 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=21 October 2016}}</ref> Of the first ten cutters, the ''Argus'' was in service the longest. == History == ''Argus'' was built and launched in 1791 at [[New London, Connecticut]] where she remained stationed.<ref name=Silverstone77>Paul H. Silverstone, ''The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854'' (London; New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 77</ref> The first-named Argus was sold in 1804.<ref name=first10USCG/> ''Argus'' was designed as a [[sloop]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Argus1791.asp |title=Argus, 1791 |publisher=United States Coast Guard. U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=21 O