USCGC Active (WPC-125)  USCGC "Active" (WPC-125), later WSC-125, was a United States Coast Guard patrol boat in commission from 1926 to 1947 and from 1951 to 1962. She was the first vessel of the Coast Guard and the seventh of the United States Revenue Cutter Service or Coast Guard to bear the name "Active". "Active" was built by American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation at Camden, New Jersey. She was commissioned as USCGC "Active" (WPC-125) on 30 November 1926. She was the lead ship of the "Active"-class patrol boats, which were designed for trailing the "mother ships" that supported the smuggling boats of "rum-runners" during Prohibition. In 1938, "Active" was re-engined, her original 6-cylinder diesel engines being replaced by significantly more powerful 8-cylinder units that used the original engine beds and gave her an additional 3 knots of speed. In September 1941 to May 1942, during World War II, "Active" was stationed at Stapleton on Staten Island, New York, and this was her base when the United States entered World War II on 7 December 1941. During the war, she was reclassified as a submarine chaser and redesignated WSC-125. She operated out of Stapleton until May 1942. In June 1942, her home port changed to Boston, Massachusetts, and she was assigned to operate under the control of the United States Navys Commander-in-Chief Atlantic and to work under Destroyers Atlantic. She operated out of Boston until mid-1944, also operating out of Gronnedal, Greenland, while serving on the Greenland Patrol. She later patrolled Ocean Station Able in the Atlantic Ocean from July 1943 to the summer of 1944. In mid-1944, "Active" was transferred to Miami, Florida, from which she provided escort services in the Caribbean until 1945. In 1946, "Active" was stationed in Boston again, but was inactive there due to a shortage of personnel. From 1947 to 1950 she was laid up in Cleveland, Ohio. Reactivated in 1951, "Active" was stationed at Monterey, California until 1962, providing aid to navigation and performing law-enforcement duties. After a long and active life, "Active" was decommissioned at Monterey on 2 April 1962. She was sold on 6 September 1963.