USRC Scammel was one of the first ten cutters operated by the United States Revenue-Marine (later to become the U.S. Coast Guard).

The local collector, under whose authority Scammel sailed, Joseph Whipple, informed Hamilton that: The services performed by the Cutter I conceive to have been very important to the safety and preservation of the Revenue.

The Coast which is assigned to her, that of New Hampshire and the District of Maine, extending nearly 300 miles, many of which afford convenient places for fraudulent practices which have been checked by the attention and vigilance of the officers of the Scammel.

The services for the year past consisted in cruising the aforementioned Coast, in entering and examining the Vessel's papers, instructing the ignorant coasters, and in bringing to justice those who break or evade the laws.

Instances of contraventing of the laws have been discovered and prosecuted and some of them failed by the unaccountable determination of the court.She was sold on 16 August 1798 to Clement Jackson for $565.

Yeaton probably brought along his slave, Senegal, during the Scammel's patrols as was this practice was permitted by the Treasury Department at this time.