High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Active was a survey ship that served in the United States Coast Survey, a predecessor of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, from 1852 to 1861. Active was a sidewheel steamer. Her origins are obscure, but she may have been built in 1836. She was named Goldhunter when the Coast Survey purchased her on the United States West Coast in 1852 and renamed her Active. Lieutenant James Alden, Jr., was her commanding officer for most of her time in active Coast Survey service. Active served on the U.S. West Coast. She conducted the Coast Survey's first reconnaissance from San Francisco, California, to San Diego, California, in 1852.

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