What is USRC Active (1791)?
[[File:Ensign of the United States Revenue-Marine (1799).png|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Ensign (flag) of the USRCS flown from cutters {{circa}} 1798}}]] '''USRC ''Active''''' (1791) was one of the original ten [[wikt:cutter|cutter]]s{{efn|The term ''cutter'' came from the boats used by [[Great Britain]]'s Royal Customs Service.<ref name=revcuttUSCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/USRC_Photo_Index.asp |title=Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=14 October 2016}}</ref> Modern Coast Guard cutters are any larger ship no matter what the type.<ref name=revcuttUSCG/>}} built and used by the [[United States Revenue Cutter Service]].{{efn|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.<ref name=cgawUSCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/h_cgatwar.asp |title=The Coast Guard At War |author=Robert Scheina |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref>}}<ref name=first10USCG>{{cite web |url=https://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/first_cutters.asp |title=The First Ten Cutters; The first commissioned U.S. Revenue cutters |publisher=United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |access-date=17 October 2016}}</ref> It was commissioned in 1792 and remained in service until 1800. == History == ''Active'' was built by the [[Shipbuilding|shipwright]] David Stodder in [[Baltimore, Maryland]].<ref name=Silverstone77>Paul H. Silverstone, ''The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854'' (London; New York: Routledge, 2006), p. 77</ref> She was [[design]]ed as a [[schooner]].<ref name=Smith34>Horatio Davis Smith, ''Early History of the United States Revenue Marine Service'', ed. Elliot Snow (Washington, DC: Coast Guard Bicentennial Publication, 1989), p. 34</ref> She was rigg