USRC Resolute (1867)
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| Name: | USRC Resolute |
| Namesake: | firmness or determination, pursuing a fixed purpose |
| Builder: | J.W. Lynn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1] |
| Cost: | US$18,500[1] |
| Completed: | 1867 |
| Commissioned: | 1867 |
| Homeport: | Key West, Florida, 27 July 1867–10 February 1872[2] |
| Fate: | Sold 10 February 1872 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[2] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 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]
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
- Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- 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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