The story ends with the two being rescued by an American revenue cutter.
Massachusetts by tradition is held to be the first revenue cutter to enter active service.
After the war, she served as a revenue cutter.
She served as a revenue cutter until temporarily transferred to the Navy late in 1858.
Revenue cutters were used to try and intercept the smugglers but with little success.
Later still, they were adapted to smaller revenue cutters.
"We could not ride our horses across the Channel, and the Revenue cutter is some miles away."
These journals do provide a glimpse into what life was like on board a Revenue cutter during these early years of the new republic.
The revenue cutter Manning rescued 500 survivors left homeless by the volcano.
After less than three years as a revenue cutter, Kankakee was sold in 1867 due to dissatisfaction with her machinery.