United States Coast guard . the world is called upon to render to the public services of sovaried a nature. OPERATIONS IN WAR. The military history and traditions of a service are not without theirvalue for its members, and are often of interest to those whom it its dual character of a force for belligerent operations, as well as aninstitution for the service of humanity in time of peace, the Coast Guardhas ever taken a part in the application of force by the Government whichinvolved for its people their honor, their safety, or their interest in goodorder and the enforcement of the l
United States Coast guard . the world is called upon to render to the public services of sovaried a nature. OPERATIONS IN WAR. The military history and traditions of a service are not without theirvalue for its members, and are often of interest to those whom it its dual character of a force for belligerent operations, as well as aninstitution for the service of humanity in time of peace, the Coast Guardhas ever taken a part in the application of force by the Government whichinvolved for its people their honor, their safety, or their interest in goodorder and the enforcement of the law at sea and along our originally for the protection of the revenue of the new republic,the service within a few years found itself called upon to protect ourcoasts and shipping from attack by pirates and privateers, in addition tocombating the efforts of a swarm of alien and domestic smugglers at-tracted to our coasts by the gain to be derived through evasion of the thenrecently levied duties on imports. 15. fiSE COAST GUARD CUTTER GRESHAM. The first fleet of ten cutters, all in commission by the end of the year1791, were smart little sailing vessels, approximately 50 feet in length,costing about $1,000 apiece, designed to carry small cannon and mannedoriginally by two officers and six seamen. This little fleet became verybusy from the outset of its career. Its inadequacy for the task in hand isevidenced by the representations made to Congress soon after it beganoperations; larger and more heavily armed vessels were authorized andbuilt, and the beginning of the French and American difficulties in 1798found the service in a condition to enter actively into the hostilities whichensued. In addition to operations along the coast by individual cutters,eight others, brigs and schooners, carrying from ten to fifteen gunsapiece, were divided among four naval squadrons to cruise in WestIndian waters. These eight cutters captured during the operationsseventeen prizes and
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