Boats built to stay at sea in any weather with a small crew, because a pilot who could not reach a ship did not get paid. About eighteen originals survive of hundreds built.
- Earliest record
- 1795, with twelve registered cutters of 14 to 24 tons
- Last working
- Cariad, retired 1922
- Famous survivor
- Mischief (1906), sailed roughly 110,000 miles by H. W. Tilman before her loss in Antarctic ice in 1968
- Survival
- About 18 originals of several hundred built
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