History | |
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United States | |
Name | USRC Active |
Namesake | In action; moving; causing action or change |
Builder | J.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2] |
Cost | US$18,500 [2] |
Completed | 1867 |
Commissioned | 1867 |
Homeport | New Bedford, Massachusetts, 19 June 1867–7 April 1875 [1] |
Fate | Sold 13 May 1875 at Staten Island, New York for US$5,508.50 [1] |
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 |
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]
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]
History | |
---|---|
United States | |
Name | USRC Active |
Namesake | In action; moving; causing action or change |
Builder | J.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2] |
Cost | US$18,500 [2] |
Completed | 1867 |
Commissioned | 1867 |
Homeport | New Bedford, Massachusetts, 19 June 1867–7 April 1875 [1] |
Fate | Sold 13 May 1875 at Staten Island, New York for US$5,508.50 [1] |
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 |
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]
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]