USRC Resolute

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USRC Resolute
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Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1867).pngUnited States
NameUSRC Resolute
Namesakefirmness or determination, pursuing a fixed purpose
BuilderJ.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [1]
CostUS$18,500 [1]
Completed1867
Commissioned1867
Homeport Key West, Florida, 27 July 1867–10 February 1872 [2]
FateSold 10 February 1872 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2]
General characteristics
Class & typeActive-class schooner
Displacement120 tons
Length90 ft (27 m)
Beam19 ft (5.8 m)
Draft7 ft 10 in (2.39 m)
Sail planschooner
Armament1 gun

USRC Resolute, was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service in commission from 1867 to 1872. [1] She was the only Revenue Cutter Service ship to bear the name. [3]

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History

Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by J.W. Lynn, Resolute was commissioned in 1867 and served her entire career homeported at Key West, Florida. [2] She was the second of the Active-class of six revenue schooners built at three different yards. [1] [Note 1] Resolute and her sister ship Active, also built by Lynn, were among the last strictly sail-powered cutters built for the Revenue Service. [3]

Notes

  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 over all length of 85 ft (26 m). [4]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Canney, p 38
  2. 1 2 3 Record of Movements, p 50
  3. 1 2 "Resolute, 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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