USRC ''Rush'' was a

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named for Richard Rush, eighth

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. 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 previous October. ''Rush'' spent her entire career on the Pacific ranging from the Bering Sea to

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and

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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

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in 1898 she was detached for duty with the

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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

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In 1899 she towed the newly commissioned river cutter to

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. 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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