The force was one of the elements forming today's Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police.

[2] In January 1893 new Driggs-Schroeder guns for the Oyster Navy had arrived and were to be installed on the schooners May Brown, Anna B. Smith, and Bessie Jones.

Russel had been warned by a dredger named Harris that the law was not going to keep him from dredging the Cobb Island beds.

They were under the command of a Conservation Commission member who was also a Lieutenant in the Navy with all expenses, wages, supplies, and repairs paid by the federal government.

[9] Bessie Jones, Buck, Daisy Archer, Dorothy, Frolic, Governor R. M. McLane, Julia Hamilton, Helen Baughman, Murray, Music, Nellie Jackson, Nettie, Severn, St. Mary's, and Swan