After the war the state modernized its force selling the older sailing vessels to be replaced by purpose built motor boats.

[1] In February 1884 some hundred oyster pirates in some twenty vessels were at work dredging illegally when challenged by Captain John Insley of Julia Hamilton.

State forces were reinforced by the police steamer Governor R. M. McLane and five dredging schooners were captured, though their captains escaped, and towed into Cambridge, Maryland.

[3] The earliest death of a Maryland conservation officer was on 17 September 1893 when Josiah Bromwell, a mate aboard Julia Hamilton, was swept overboard in rough waters of the Little Choptank River to drown.

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.

[8] 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