Construction
The cutter Jackson was built at the Washington Navy Yard in 1832 for the United States Revenue Cutter Service under the command of Capt. W. A. Howard, USRCS.
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“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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