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168 set flying on a running bowsprit, and the sloop's on a stay with a standing bowsprit.

The first cutter owned in the British Navy, as has been mentioned, was the Swift, 1761; and, according to Charnock, the first schooner was the Chaleur, bought in 1764. The first lugger was the La Gloire, taken from the French in 1781.

LINES OF THE CUTTER "BUSY," 1788

Falconer (1771) gives this definition of a cutter:

"A small vessel commonly navigated in the channel of England; it is furnished with one mast, and rigged as a sloop, many of these vessels are used in illicit trade, and others are employed by the government to seize them; the latter are either under the direction of the Admiralty or Custom-house."

Falconer gives no definition of a lugger, as the rig had not at that time been introduced into England.

By the year 1800 the cutter rig had become