USRC Alabama, was a wood-hull topsail schooner designed by William Doughty that was commissioned in the United States Revenue Marine from 1819 to 1833.

Assigned the homeport of Mobile, Alabama, she sailed the Caribbean extensively with her sister ship, USRC Louisiana and was used mainly in anti-piracy activity.

[6] The cutters were constructed by the Christian Bergh Shipyard at New York City using plans drawn up by naval constructor William Doughty.

[6] While on her voyage to her homeport at Mobile, on 31 August 1819, Alabama assisted her sister ship, Louisiana in the capture of the pirate vessel Bravo near Dry Tortugas.

[Note 3] Bravo had captured the Spanish schooner Filomena with a cargo of flour bound for Havana, Cuba out of Pensacola, Florida.