USRC Resolute (1867)

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USRC Resolute
History
Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1867).pngUnited States
NameUSRC Resolute
Namesakefirmness or determination, pursuing a fixed purpose
BuilderJ.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[2]
CostUS$18,500[2]
Completed1867
Commissioned1867
HomeportKey West, Florida, 27 July 1867–10 February 1872[1]
FateSold 10 February 1872 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]
General characteristics
Class and 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.[2] She was the only Revenue Cutter Service ship to bear the name.[3]

History[]

Built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by J.W. Lynn, Resolute was commissioned in 1867 and served her entire career homeported at Key West, Florida.[1] She was the second of the Active-class of six revenue schooners built at three different yards.[2][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[]

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 were constructed by Biery & Hillman of Philadelphia and had an overall length of 92 ft (28 m); and were built by W.H. Hawthorn of Williamsburg, New York and had an over all length of 85 ft (26 m).[4]
Citations
  1. ^ a b c Record of Movements, p 50
  2. ^ a b c d Canney, p 38
  3. ^ a b "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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References used
  • "Record of Movements, Vessels of the United States Coast Guard, 1790–December 31, 1933" (pdf). U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.
  • "Resolute, 1867". U.S. Coast Guard Cutters & Craft Index. U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  • Canney, Donald L. (1995). U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935. Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland. ISBN 978-1-55750-101-1.
  • Colton, Tim. "Revenue Cutters Built in the 18th and 19th Centuries". Shipbuilding History. shipbuildinghistory.com website. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
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