An old engraving of British Revenue Cutters capturing an American smuggling vessel c. 1770. It is from a Victorian history book of Here the heavily armed ‘cutters’ have boarded the smuggling vessel. A sailing cutter was a small or medium-sized boat with a shallow draft, built for speed. Government agencies used the term ‘cutters’ for vessels (and their crew) employed in patrolling their territorial waters, preventing smuggling and other enforcement activities.
An old engraving of British Revenue Cutters capturing an American smuggling vessel c. 1770. It is from a Victorian history book of Here the heavily armed ‘cutters’ have boarded the smuggling vessel. A sailing cutter was a small or medium-sized boat with a shallow draft, built for speed. Government agencies used the term ‘cutters’ for vessels (and their crew) employed in patrolling their territorial waters, preventing smuggling and other enforcement activities.
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