USS Active was a tug constructed in 1888 at San Francisco by the Union Iron Works.

Active marines and immediately lay alongside Pier 8, playing out several hose lines to fight the nearest part of the blaze.

Active later assisted in saving the Pacific Mail dock and that general section of the San Francisco waterfront.

On 21 April, Active steamed to Mare Island to bring back relief firefighters from the crews of the cruisers Chicago and Marblehead.

[2] Transferred to the Naval Training Station at San Francisco on 10 May 1915, she returned to Mare Island in 1918.

She was sold to the Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co., of Seattle, on 11 February 1930 and resumed commercial service.