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
^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]