USRC Active (1791)
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USRC Active (1791) was one of the original ten cutters[a] built and used by the United States Revenue Cutter Service.[b][3] It was commissioned in 1792 and remained in service until 1800.
History[change | change source]
Active was built by the shipwright David Stodder in Baltimore, Maryland.[4] She was designed as a schooner.[5] She was rigged with fore-and-aft sails on two masts. She was launched on April 9, 1791 and was based in Baltimore.[4] USRC Active was used to patrol the waters of the Chesapeake Bay.[3]
Her first master was Simon Gross.[3] Her first mate was Isaac Roach and her second mate was Benjamin Rue.[6] Goss resigned in 1792 and President George Washington promoted the former first mate, David Porter, as master.[7] The 1791-built cutter named Active was sold in 1800.[3]
Related pages[change | change source]
- USRC Vigilant (1791)
- USRC Scammel (1791)
- USRC General Green (1791)
- USRC Massachusetts (1791)
- USRC Argus (1791)
- USRC Virginia (1791)
- USRC Diligence (1791)
- USRC South Carolina (1791)
- USRC Eagle (1791)
Notes[change | change source]
- ↑ The term cutter came from the boats used by Great Britain's Royal Customs Service.[1] Modern Coast Guard cutters are any larger ship no matter what the type.[1]
- ↑ Also called the Revenue Marine. Together with the United States Life-Saving Service, the United States Revenue Cutter Service formed the United States Coast Guard on 28 January 1915.[2]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
- ↑ Robert Scheina. "The Coast Guard At War". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "The First Ten Cutters; The first commissioned U.S. Revenue cutters". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Paul H. Silverstone, The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854 (London; New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 77
- ↑ Horatio Davis Smith, Early History of the United States Revenue Marine Service, ed. Elliot Snow (Washington, DC: Coast Guard Bicentennial Publication, 1989), p. 34
- ↑ H.D. Smith, 'The United States Revenue Cutter Service', The United Service; A Monthly Review of Military and Naval Affairs, New Series, Vol. II, No. 5 (November, 1889), p. 463
- ↑ Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Vol. XII, ed. Harold C. Syrett (New York; Columbia University Press, 1967), p. 199