| USRC Active (1867) |
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Career (U.S.)
Name:
USRC ActiveNamesake:
In action; moving; causing action or changeBuilder:
J.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]Cost:
US$18,500[1]Completed:
1867Commissioned:
1867Homeport:
New Bedford, Massachusetts, 19 June 1867–7 April 1875[2]Fate:
Sold 13 May 1875 at Staten Island, New York for US$5,508.50[2]
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General characteristics Class & type:
Active-class schoonerDisplacement:
120 tonsLength:
90 ft (27 m)Beam:
19 ft (5.8 m)Draft:
7 ft 10 in (2.39 m)Sail plan:
schoonerArmament:
1 gun
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USRC Active, was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1875.[1] She was the fifth Revenue Cutter Service ship to bear the name.[3]
History[]
Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by J.W. Lynn, Active was commissioned in 1867 and served her entire career homeported at New Bedford, Massachusetts.[2] She was the lead ship of the Active-class of six revenue schooners built at three different yards.[1][Note 1] Active and her sister ship Resolute, also built by Lynn, were among the last strictly sail-powered cutters built for the Revenue Service.[3]
Notes[]
- Footnotes
- ↑ Colton claims that the Active-class consisted of only two ships, Active and Resolute, both constructed at the Lynn shipyard. The other four cutters that Canney claims are in the Active-class were built in different yards and had different dimensions than the cutters built at the Lynn shipyard. USRC Relief and USRC Rescue were constructed by Biery & Hillman of Philadelphia and had a over all length of 92 ft (28 m); USRC Petrel and USRC Racer were built by W.H. Hawthorn of Williamsburg, New York and had an over all length of 85 ft (26 m).[4]
- Citations
- References used
- "Active, 1867". U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft Index. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Active1867.asp. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- "Record of Movements, Vessels of the United States Coast Guard, 1790–December 31, 1933" (pdf). U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/RecordofMovements.pdf.
- Canney, Donald L. (1995). U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-101-1.
- Colton, Tim. "Revenue Cutters Built in the 18th and 19th Centuries". Shipbuilding History. shipbuildinghistory.com website. http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/smallships/woc.htm. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
The original article can be found at USRC Active (1867) and the edit history here.