What is USRC Massachusetts?
{{italic title}} [[File:USRC Massachusetts (1791).jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|painting of a Revenue Marine cutter (either the Massachusetts (1791), or its replacement, the Massachusetts II)}}]] '''USRC ''Massachusetts''''' 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> While not the first USRS cutter to be [[wikt:launch|launch]]ed, it was the first to enter [[Active duty|active service]].<ref name=first10USCG/> == History == ''Massachusetts'' was built at [[Newburyport, MA]] by shipwright William Searle.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMC720_Birthplace_of_the_United_States_Coast_Guard_Newburyport_MA |title=Birthplace of the United States Coast Guard - Newburyport, MA |website=Waymarking.com |publisher=Groundspeak, Inc |access-date=17 Oc