What is USRC General Green?
{{italic title}} [[File:USRC Massachusetts (1791).jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|painting of an early Revenue Marine cutter}}]] '''USRC ''General Green''''' 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> Although [[wikt:misspell|misspell]]ed, she was named for the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] hero [[Major General]] [[Nathanael Greene]].<ref name=gengreen1791USCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/cutters/USRC/GeneralGreene/GeneralGreen1791.asp |title=General Green, 1791 |access-date=18 October 2016}}</ref> == History == The ''General Green'' was [[wikt:launch|launch]]ed on July 7, 1791 at [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=first10USCG/> She was built by shipwright David Price and stationed in the [[Delaware River|Delaware Bay]