USRC ''Rush'' was a revenue cutter named for

Richard Rush Richard Rush (August 29, 1780 – July 30, 1859) was the 8th United States Attorney General and the 8th United States Secretary of the Treasury. He also served as John Quincy Adams's running mate on the National Republican ticket in 1828. Born ...

, eighth Secretary of the Treasury. She was a replacement for and was much larger, but re-used the engine from the first ''Rush''. She was completed in November 1885. In January 1886, soon after commissioning, she was assigned to search for the whaler ''Amethyst'', last seen in the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea (, ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasses on Earth: Eurasia and The Ameri ...

the previous October. ''Rush'' spent her entire career on the Pacific ranging from the Bering Sea to Hawaii and San Diego, California performing customs duties, search and rescue, and law enforcement, including hosting judicial functions in furtherance of her enforcement of revenue and conservation laws. During the Spanish–American War in 1898 she was detached for duty with the United States Navy in the defense of the west coast, but returned to her duties with the Revenue Service later that year.Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters: A Historic Image Gallery
United States Coast Guard In 1899 she towed the newly commissioned river cutter to Alaska. She was decommissioned on 30 September 1912 and sold on 22 January 1913 to the Alaska Junk Company for $8,500. USRC 29

References

Sources

* Canney, Donald L. (1885), ''U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935'', Naval Institute Press

External links

Teacher's Resource for U.S. Coast Guard History
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