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24-449: USS Adams may refer to: USS  Adams  (1799) , was a 28-gun frigate launched in 1799 and active in the War of 1812 and scuttled to prevent capture in 1814. USS  Adams  (1874) , was a wooden screw steamer commissioned in 1876 and decommissioned in 1919. USS  Adams  (DM-27) , was a destroyer minelayer serving at

48-463: A French Letter of Marque. In December recaptured brig "George". In February she recaptured schooner "Benevolence". In March she recaptured schooner "Three Friends". In April she captured schooner "Favorite". On 2 May, 1800 captured French schooner "La Magdelaine" (15 tons). On 25 June, captured French merchantman "Dolphin". On 10 September 1800 she set sail for St. Thomas , Virgin Islands , with

72-673: A letter dated 16 April. Capt. Hugh G. Campbell was ordered to take command in a letter dated 17 April. On 10 June 1802, she departed New York and headed for the Strait of Gibraltar carrying orders for Commodore Richard V. Morris, her first commanding officer who was now in command of the American Mediterranean Squadron. She arrived there on 22 July and remained in that port blockading the Tripolitan cruiser Meshuda lest she escape and prey on American shipping. It

96-669: A prize, probably French ship "Siren". On 27 July 1799 the Secretary of the Navy sent a letter with Campbell's commission as a U.S. Navy officer, rank of master commandant. She returned to the Caribbean in August 1799 for similar duty. In early November she recaptured a brig that was being towed by a privateer, the privateer was forced ashore but got off and got away. She later captured a French sloop, and with USS  Ganges captured

120-417: A schooner from Boston which that vessel had seized. On 12 November, she again teamed with Insurgent in recapturing the 14-gun English brig Margaret . On the 20th, they cooperated in liberating the schooner Nancy off Guadeloupe which had struck her colors on the 18th. On 20 November off Guadeloupe they recaptured schooner "Nancy", captured on 18 November by a French privateer. On 15 December, she took

144-506: Is an unclear reference to HMS Unity in connection to this ship), and an unidentified brig, she captured the brig Dove and the schooner Renomie . In need of repairs, Adams returned to New York on 3 June 1800, after briefly running aground off Cape Hatteras , On 18 August Capt. Thomas Robinson was made her new Captain replacing Capt. Morris. Early in the fall she headed back to the Caribbean. However, on this cruise she did not have

168-556: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles USS Adams (1799) USS Adams was a 28-gun (rated) sailing frigate of the United States Navy . She was laid down in 1797 at New York City by John Jackson and William Sheffield and launched on 8 June 1799. Captain Richard Valentine Morris took command of the ship. The frigate departed New York in mid-September 1799 and headed for

192-907: The Navy in July 1798 for service in the undeclared naval war ( Quasi-War ) with France . From October 1798 Eagle patrolled off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia protecting American shipping from French privateers . Ordered to the West Indies , she arrived at Prince Rupert's Bay , Dominica , 14 March 1799, to hunt French ships, and to convoy merchant vessels on the Guadeloupe Station until late in June, when she sailed for New Castle, Delaware . Sometime in early 1799 she and USRC Diligence captured French ship Reynard. On 5 April, 1799 she captured French privateer sloop "Bon Pere", Bon Pere

216-701: The Penobscot River and reached Hampden, Maine (then part of the District of Maine under Massachusetts). There on 3 September 1814, during the Battle of Hampden , she was scuttled and set ablaze to prevent capture by a British squadron under the command of Rear-Admiral Edward Griffiths supporting British offensive operations in Maine. The crew largely escaped, walking overland to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. USS Eagle (1798) She placed under control of

240-538: The West Indies to protect American shipping from attacks by French privateers , during the Quasi-War with France. She arrived at Saint Christopher on 10 October and soon began cruising nearby waters in search of French men of war and any prizes which had been captured by warships flying French colors. Later that month, she recaptured the brig Zylpha and assisted USS  Insurgent in taking an unidentified 4-gun French privateer and freeing an English brig and

264-509: The French privateer Le Onze Vendémiaire . On 10 January 1800, Adams and USS  Eagle made the French schooner La Fougeuse their prize and, late in the month, Adams recaptured the schooner Alphia . Sometime in January she captured schooner "Le Gambeaux". French schooner L'Heureuse Rencontre was captured, and privateer "General Massena" also, and "Isabella", a prize of Berceau

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288-528: The West Indies extended from January to June 1801, when she returned to Baltimore . During her career in the United States ' navy, she captured or assisted in the capture of 22 French vessels which had been preying on American ocean commerce. Eagle was sold 17 June 1801 at Baltimore for $ 10,585.73. On 27 July 1799 the Secretary of the Navy sent a letter with Campbell's commission as

312-808: The eastern Atlantic and along the African coast and took five merchantmen prizes before putting in at Savannah, Georgia , in April. Underway again in May, she headed for the Newfoundland Banks and ultimately sailed eastward to waters off the British Isles . During this cruise, she took five more merchant ships chased two more into the River Shannon , and barely managed to escape from a much larger British warship. She captured Woodbridge , which

336-588: The end of World War II , named for WWII aviator LT Samuel Adams See also [ edit ] USS  John Adams - list of US Naval ships named for President Adams USS  Charles F. Adams a guided missile destroyer that served during the Cold War . Adams , a 200-ton brig purchased during the summer of 1812 but captured by the British and renamed HMS Detroit . The Americans briefly recaptured her but had to abandon her when she grounded; she

360-522: The northern coast of Africa were capturing American merchantmen attempting to trade in that ancient sea and enslaving their crews. Capt. Edward Preble was ordered to New York to take command by the Navy Secretary on 12 January, 1802. In a letter dated 13 April, 1802 Preble asked for a furlough due to a rapid decline in his health since arriving in New York in January. His request was granted in

384-695: The outbreak of the War of 1812 . In August 1811 she became the receiving ship at the Washington Navy Yard . In June 1812, Adams was cut in half amidships and lengthened 15 feet in the course of being completely rebuilt as a sloop-of-war of 26 × 18-pounder guns. Commanded by Capt. Charles Morris , she was ready for action by the end of the year, but was bottled up in the Chesapeake Bay by blockading British warships until she finally managed to slip out to sea on 18 January 1814. She cruised in

408-421: The sloop-of-war USS  Maryland , escorting a convoy of 52 ships. On unknown date she and USS Maryland recaptured brig "Mahitable". After arrival at New Castle on 28 September, Eagle proceeded to Philidelphia and was laid up for repairs. On 19 November 1800 Lt. Tho. Calvert was ordered to take command of her. On 8 December 1800 Lt. M. Simmones Bunbury was ordered to take command. Eagle's third cruise to

432-507: The success which she had enjoyed under Capt. Richard Morris but for the most part was limited to patrol and escort duty. She did manage to recapture the British schooner Grendin , but the date of the action is unknown. On 23 March 1801, the Secretary of the Navy ordered her home. She arrived prior to 7 June and was laid up at New York. However, trouble in the Mediterranean prevented her respite from being long. The Barbary states on

456-573: Was not until 8 April 1803 that she was freed of this duty. She then joined the rest of Morris' squadron in operations off Tripoli. However, as a squadron commander, Morris seemed to have lost the dash and daring he had displayed in operations against the French in the West Indies while in command of a single ship. His indecisiveness in the Mediterranean prompted Washington to order his recall and he sailed for home in Adams on 25 September. The frigate carried Morris to Washington, arriving 15 November, 1803 and

480-581: Was placed in ordinary at the navy yard. Reactivated under command of Capt. Alexander Murray in July 1805, Adams cruised along the coast of the United States from New York to Florida protecting American commerce. In the autumn of the following year she was again laid up in Washington and – but for service enforcing the Embargo Act in 1809 – remained inactive at the nation's capital until

504-462: Was recaptured, in February. The following month, she freed the sloop Nonpareil and she did the same for the schooner Priscilla in April. But Adams most successful month came in May when she recaptured an unidentified schooner and teamed up with Insurgent once more in freeing a British letter of marque . During the same month she also recaptured schooner Nancy , schooner Grinder (There

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528-520: Was sailing from India to Britain, but had to give her up when HMS  Dannemark and HMS  Albacore arrived on the scene while escorting a convoy to the Brazils. Near the end of her homeward passage, Adams ran aground on the Isle au Haut on 17 August 1814 and was damaged seriously. Skillful seamanship aided by a rising tide managed to refloat the ship and despite heavy leaking she made it into

552-561: Was taken into USRC Service under same name that year. In late April or before 6 May 1799, Eagle , USS  Richmond and USRC  Virginia captured the French ship Louis . In a letter dated 20 May, 1799 Navy Secretary Benjamin Stoddert notified the Treasury Secretary that he should consider Eagle to be officially transferred to the U.S. Navy. Sometime just before 11 June, 1799 she and USS Baltimore captured

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