USRC Richard Rush, on first mission, 2 January 1886
History
United States
Name	USRC Rush
Namesake	Secretary of the Treasury Richard Rush, and USRC Richard Rush (1874)
Builder	Hall Bros., San Francisco, California
Completed	10 November 1885
Commissioned	1885
Decommissioned	30 September 1912
Fate	Sold 22 January 1913 for $8500
General characteristics
Type	Topsail schooner
Tonnage	300
Length	175 ft (53 m)
Beam	26 ft (7.9 m)
Draft	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Depth	15 ft (4.6 m)
Installed power	Compound expansion steam, 24.5" and 37" diameter x 27" stroke, 400 hp, single screw

USRC Rush was a revenue cutter named for Richard Rush, eighth Secretary of the Treasury. She was a replacement for USRC Rush 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 previous October.^[1]

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.^[2]

In 1899 she towed the newly commissioned river cutter USRC Nunivak to Alaska. She was decommissioned on 30 September 1912 and sold on 22 January 1913 to the Alaska Junk Company for $8,500.

USRC Rush dressed overall at Sitka, District of Alaska, firing a salute on American Independence Day, July 4, 1901^[2]

References

Sources

• Canney, Donald L. (1885), U.S. Coast Guard and Revenue Cutters, 1790–1935, Naval Institute Press ISBN 1-55750-101-7

External links

• Teacher's Resource for U.S. Coast Guard History pp. 20–21