What is USRC Scammel (1791)?
{{italic title}} [[File:USRC Massachusetts (1791).jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|painting of an early Revenue Marine cutter on patrol}}]] '''''Scammel''''' 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> The ''Schammel'' was named by [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]], [[Alexander Hamilton]], after the [[American Revolutionary War]] [[Adjutant general]] of the army, [[Alexander Scammell]].<ref name=CGM>{{cite web |url=http://old.coastguardmodeling.com/Cutters/02A_RC.html |title=1790 - 1915: Revenue Cutters, The First Ten |publisher=Coast Guard Modeling |access-date=20 October 2016 |archive-date=24 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170424155032/http://old.coastguardmodeling.com/Cutters/02A_RC.html |url-status=de