USRC Active (1867)

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]

For other ships with the same name, see USRC Active and USCGC Active.

USRC Active

History
United States
Name:	USRC Active
Namesake:	In action; moving; causing action or change
Builder:	J.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]
Cost:	US$18,500[1]
Completed:	1867
Commissioned:	1867
Homeport:	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]
General characteristics
Class and type:	Active-class schooner
Displacement:	120 tons
Length:	90 ft (27 m)
Beam:	19 ft (5.8 m)
Draft:	7 ft 10 in (2.39 m)
Sail plan:	schooner
Armament:	1 gun

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

1. 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 an overall length of 92 ft (28 m); USRC Petrel and USRC Racer were built by W.H. Hawthorn of Williamsburg, New York and had an overall length of 85 ft (26 m).[4]

Citations

1. Canney, p 38
2. Record of Movements, p 127
3. "Active, 1867", U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft Index, U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office
4. Colton, Tim; "Revenue Cutters Built in the 18th and 19th Centuries", Shipbuilding History, shipbuildinghistory.com website

References used

• "Active, 1867". U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft Index. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. 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.
• 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. Retrieved 14 May 2014.