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For other ships with 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.[2] 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.[1] She was the lead ship of the Active class of six revenue schooners built at three different yards.[2][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. ^ a b c Record of Movements, p 127
  2. ^ a b c d Canney, p 38
  3. ^ a b "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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