USRC Grant was a rare, three-masted revenue cutter built in 1870 and 1871 by Pusey & Jones Corporation in Wilmington, Delaware.

She served the United States Revenue Cutter Service in both the Atlantic and Pacific preventing smuggling and protecting shipping.

[11] Two years later, Grant participated in the 1889 Great Naval Parade, part of the Grand Centennial Celebration of the Inauguration of President Washington, held in New York Harbor on 30 April 1889.

[4][5] In the ensuing years, Grant operated out of Port Townsend, protecting the salmon fisheries and, when necessary, extending assistance to ships of the Bering Sea whaling fleet.

Returned to the Treasury Department on 16 August 1898, Grant resumed her peacetime activities, patrolling the same northwest Pacific coastlines of Washington and Alaska which she had covered during her brief wartime naval service.

[15] In 1906, the British government gifted Tozier a replacement sword, as a token of their appreciation "of the valuable and cordial assistance rendered" by him in the search for Condor.

[17] In October 1903,[18] to assist with her anti-smuggling mission,[19] Grant became the first United States revenue cutter to be fitted with a wireless telegraph device.

[20][21] On 23 January 1906, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's steamer Valencia became stranded off Cape Beale Light, near Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

[24] In September 1911, she helped rescue survivors of SS Ramona, a passenger steamer that ran aground near the Spanish Island, in Christian Sound, Alaska.