Active-class patrol boat General Greene, 1962
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Class overview | |
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Name | Active class |
Builders | American Brown Boveri Electric Corporation, Camden, New Jersey |
Operators | |
Built | 1926–1927 |
In commission | 1927–1978 |
Completed | 35 |
Lost | 4 |
Retired | 32 |
Scrapped | 2 confirmed |
Preserved | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol boat |
Displacement | 232 long tons (236 t) |
Length | 125 ft (38 m) |
Beam | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
Draft | 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) |
Propulsion | At launch: 2 × 6-cylinder, 300 hp (224 kW) Winton Model 114-6 diesel engines
1938: 2 x Cooper-Bessemer EN-9 600 bhp diesel engines 2 Propellers |
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Boats & landing craft carried | As built: 2 20' Pulling Boats 1976: 1 14' Utility Boat |
Complement | 1938: 22
1944: 38 1960: 3 officers, 17 men |
Armament |
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Notes | 1 600-watt 12" spotlight |
The Active-class patrol boat was one of the most useful and long-lasting classes of United States Coast Guard cutters. Of the 35 built in the 1920s, 16 were still in service during the 1960s. The last to be decommissioned from active service was the Morris in 1970; the last in actual service was the Cuyahoga, which sank after an accidental collision in 1978.[1]