USRC Active (1867)

USRC Active
Career (U.S.)
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
For other ships of the same name, see USRC Active and USCGC Active.

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
  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 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
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Canney, p 38
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Record of Movements, p 127
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "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
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