6-560: USS Cyane may refer to: USS Cyane (1815) , was captured from the Royal Navy in 1815 and taken into the US Navy, where she served until 1836. USS Cyane (1837) , was a 22-gun sloop-of-war, launched in 1837 and decommissioned in 1871 USS Cyane (YFB-4) , was formerly Gwin , renamed Cyane on 11 April 1918 [REDACTED] [REDACTED] List of ships with
12-708: A pursuing British squadron on 12 March and arrived in America on 10 April. She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Cyane . Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819–1820 and in the West Indies from 1820–1821 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade. In this regard she was a predecessor to the Africa Squadron . She cruised in
18-600: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles USS Cyane (1815) Cyane was a Royal Navy sailing Banterer -class sixth-rate ship of 22 guns, built in 1806 at Topsham , near Exeter , England . She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Columbine and was renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year. Under Captain Thomas Staines she captured the Spanish privateer Medusa in 1808 which
24-533: The Mediterranean 1824–1825, and on the Brazil Station 1826–1827. Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard , she sank in 1835 and was raised and broken up the following year. The April/May 1983 issue of American Heritage magazine carried an article "What it was like to be Shot up by Old Ironsides" concerning the discovery of three pages of HMS Cyane ' s logbook from 13 to 20 February 1815, with
30-517: The same or similar names This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Cyane&oldid=1045790145 " Categories : Set index articles on ships United States Navy ship names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
36-552: Was the last ship captured by the British before Spain turned against Napoleon . In May 1809 she was badly damaged during a battle with French gunboats and the French frigate Ceres . She was captured with HMS Levant on 20 February 1815 by USS Constitution after a 40-minute night engagement off Madeira . With Constitution ' s second lieutenant Hoffman as prize master , she successfully escaped recapture by
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