Vinces, 1931
CG 821
A former name retained.
History:
Vinces was a three-masted 93-foot British auxiliary schooner that was seized as a rum-runner in March of 1927 by the cutter Mascoutin some 15 miles from the South Carolina shoreline. A lengthy court battle ensued and she was taken into Coast Guard service on 23 July 1931 at the Coast Guard Depot in Curtis Bay, Maryland.
Sources:
Cutter History File. USCG Historian's Office, USCG HQ, Washington, D.C.
Donald Canney. U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790-1935. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995.
U.S. Coast Guard. Record of Movements: Vessels of the United States Coast Guard: 1790 - December 31, 1933. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1934; 1989 (reprint).