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USRC Forward

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2021
Entity authorityQ17090207 ↗
Source-derived summary

USRC Forward was the name of two vessels of the United States Revenue Cutter Service, and may refer to:

USRC Forward (1842), commissioned as Walter Forward, a 139-ton topsail schooner launched in 1841 and sold in 1865.

USRC Forward (1882), a 267-ton topsail schooner brigantine steamer launched in 1882 and sold in 1912.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “USRC Forward” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through USRC, Forward and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1842, 1841, 1865, 1882—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, USRC, Forward and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q17090207. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1842, 1841, 1865 and 1882.

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This entry incorporates text from “USRC Forward” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.