coast-guard cutter
Americannoun
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Neither the Flower nor her three crewmen were seen again, but soon afterward a coast-guard cutter, steaming belatedly from Santander, spied a white head bobbing in the water.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some way out in the stream was a small coast-guard cutter with three men on board, two of whom were at the oars.
From A Rogue by Compulsion by Bridges, Victor
He may find an anchorage until night and then get away in the dark, but I'm afraid he won't take that long, because he knows a coast-guard cutter is liable to spy him out.
From The Devil's Admiral by Moore, Frederick Ferdinand
The smugglers observed the sail narrowly, suspecting that it might be some coast-guard cutter about to lie in ambush behind the Great Hanway.
From Toilers of the Sea by Hugo, Victor
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