USS Active (1779)

For other ships of the same name, see USS Active.

USS Active (1779)
Career (US)
Launched:	1779
Captured:	23 March 1782
Fate:	Condemned as a prize and sold.
General characteristics
Class & type:	Packet
Tons burthen:	60
Propulsion:	Sail
Sail plan:	Brigantine
Complement:	15

USS Active—a brigantine-rigged packet built at Marshfield, Massachusetts, on the orders of the Continental Congress—was launched in July 1779. Under the command of Capt. Corbin Barnes, she made voyages to Bilbao, Spain, in 1780 and to Nantes, France, in 1781. On 23 March 1782, while sailing from Philadelphia to Havana, Cuba, she encountered the British man-of-war HMS Proserpine and was captured. The British warship took her into Jamaica where she was condemned as a prize and sold.

References

• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.