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  USS Cyane (1796)
She was built in 1796 at Frinsbury[?], England, for the Royal Navy.
She was adjudicated by a prize court[?] and purchased by the Navy.
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.
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 USS Cyane
Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-20 and in the West Indies from 1820-21 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade.
Enclosed you will receive the minutes of the action, and a list of the killed and wounded on board this ship; also enclosed you will receive for your information, a statement of the actual force of the enemy, and the number killed and wounded on board their ships, as near as could be ascertained.
CYANE took part in the operations off Copenhagen in September 1807 and after the capitulation of the Danish navy she was employed in the blockade of Zealand.
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 USS Constitution: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
The USS Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides"" is a wooden hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy.
The USS Constitution is currently docked at the Old Navy Shipyard in the Charlestown section of Boston.
The keel of a Lexington-class battle cruiser, to have been named USS Constitution (CC-5), was laid at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1920, but the class was cancelled in 1923 by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922.
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 List of ships of the United States Navy
USS Enterprise (1775, 1776, 1799, 1831, 1874, CV-6, CVN-65)
USS Princeton (1842, 1852, 1898, CVL-23, CV-37, CG-59)
USS Somers (1813, 1842, 1898, DD-301, DD-381, DDG-34)
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 USS_Cyane_(1796) - The Wordbook Encyclopedia
Cyane was a Royal Navy sailing frigate built in 1806 at Plymouth, England.
She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Cyane.
In this regard she was a predecessor to the Africa Squadron.
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 1796 Encyclopedia
Year 1796 (MDCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
April 27 - The Case of the Lyons Mail: during the night of April 27, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon, kill the postmen, and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.
In a chapter of the TV animated series The Simpsons, Jedediah Springfield, with a group of colonists from Massachusetts, founded the show's town of Springfield.
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 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, C4   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In December 1796 Capt. Benjamin HALLOWELL was on duty ashore at Gibraltar and Lieut.
CYANE took part in the operations off Copenhagen in September 1807 and after the capitulation of the Danish navy she was employed in the blockade of Zealand.
CYANE arrived in the North River on 10 April and anchored near the USS CONSTELLATION.
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 Science Fair Projects - USS Cyane (1796)
Cyane was a sailing frigate built in 1796 at Frinsbury, England, for the Royal Navy.
With Constitution's second lieutenant Hoffman as prize master, she successfully escaped recapture by a pursuing British squadron 12 March and arrived in America 10 April.
She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Cyane.
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 Old Ironsides History Page
USS CONSTITUTION is designed to be powerful enough to outfight any enemy warship approximately her same size, and yet fast enough to outsail a larger opponent.
USS CONSTITUTION serves in the Mediterranean Squadron-for several years as the flagship-under the command of Capt. Jacob Jones and Commodore Thomas Macdonough.
She is towed by the minesweeper USS GREBE and, occasionally, by the submarine tender USS BUSHNELL.
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 USS Cyane
The first Cyane, a frigate, was built in 1796 at Frinsbury, England, for the Royal Navy.
Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-20 and in the West Indies from 1820-21 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and
Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard, she sank in 1886 and was raised and broken up the following year.
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 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, E   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CYANE and ESPOIR with some Sicilian gunboats had been stationed to the southward of the islands and on the morning of the 20th they were signalled to intercept a flotilla of 47 gunboats coming south from Gaeta and prevent them entering the Bay of Naples.
They were brought to action by the British and Sicilian gunboats supported by CYANE and ESPOIR and 18 enemy gunboats were taken and 4 destroyed.
On 27 June CYANE and ESPOIR were in action with an Italian 4O-gun frigate sailing from Baia into Naples under the protection of batteries along the shore.
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 Frigate Cyane
The Royal Navy frigate, HMS Cyane, is one of only two wooden vessels known to have been built by John Bass, the Lympstone shipbuilder (the other being the Royal Navy gunbrig HMS Urgent).
This Cyane saw service in the West Indies until "...she was captured on 12 May 1805 by the French HORTENSE and HERMIONE and recaptured off Torbago on 5 October 1805 by Capt. George TOBIN in PRINCESS CHARLOTTE,38, and renamed CERF because a new 22-gun CYANE was in service".
There are a considerable number of accounts on the WWW which make reference to the ship HMS Cyane, in connection with her capture, 20 February 1815, along with HMS Levant by the USS Constitution during the War of 1812 (actually just after peace had been agreed because of the slowness of communications at the time!).
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 University of North Carolina Libraries
Letters, 30 October 1861, 20 December 1862, and 11 June 1863, to relatives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Harris, a sailor on board USS Richmond in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, and New Orleans, Louisiana, concerning military activity on the lower Mississippi River and Harris's commanding officers.
Journals kept by Hudson, commander of USS Peacock and second in command of the South Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition, recording nautical information and shore activities along the west coast of North America, on Pacific islands, and in Singapore.
Daily logbooks of USS North Carolina, cruising the Mediterranean under the command of Captain John Rodgers, noting daily position, weather, activities on board, and places sighted and visited.  One volume covers the period 14 November 1825-31 March 1827; the second, kept by W. Ogden, 4 February-16 August 1826.
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 Whatever Happened?
USS AMBERJACK (SS-219), was presumed lost on 3-22-43.
USS BALTIMORE in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898.
USS ARGONAUT (SM1), and his country, in action with the enemy on 1-11-43.
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 This Day In Military History... - Page 105 - Armchair General Forums
*Coastal minesweeper USS Detector is accidentally sunk in collision with U.S. tanker Oswego 300 yards east-northeast of Finn's Ledge Buoy, at the entrance to the north channel at Boston, Massachusetts.
Destroyer USS Stewart is damaged by gunfire of destroyers IJN Oshio and IJN Asashio, 07°18'S, 112°46'E. Dutch destroyer Piet Hien is sunk; 30 of her survivors board a motor whaleboat jettisoned by destroyer USS John D. Ford and proceed unaided to Java.
*Submarine USS Blackfish torpedoes and sinks German patrol craft VP 408 (ex-trawler Haltenbank), 43°30'N, 002°54'W, but is damaged by depth charges from what she reports as two converted trawlers, and is forced to terminate her patrol.
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 GUERRA NAVALE
USS Enterprise- The most decorated carrier in WW2
For the last couple of years the Wessex Branch of the Naval Wargames Society has been asked to put on a demonstration game at the Napoleonic Fair in London.
However, rather than taking the postulated change of events as they were presented in the book (which would have left precious little scope for naval action) we decided to play out a "What if" based on a "What if"!
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 About Facts Net
It is actually the third attempt to launch her; the first was a month earlier, when the ship sticks, after moving, only 27 feet.
Through superb sail handling and tactics, Stewart swiftly closes on CYANE and deals her tremendous damage to her masts and rigging.
The CYANE is purchased into the U.S. Navy and becomes the USS CYANE.
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[19] In July, the USS Cyane war sloop, commanded by Captain Samuel E. Du Pont, entered San Diego Bay.
[39] The destruction of the battleship USS Maine in La Habana Harbor on February 15, 1898, clarified the need to provide additional defenses on all coasts.
Battery Wilkeson is also a storage area and on the dunes of Imperial Beach, old Fort Emory has been converted into a naval radio station.
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 This Day In Military History... [Archive] - Page 4 - Armchair General Forums
USS Marblehead's extensive damage (only by masterful seamanship and heroic effort does she reach Tjilatjap after the battle) results in her being sent back to the United States via Ceylon and South Africa; despite the loss of turret III (one-third of her main battery), USS Houston, however, remains.
Destroyer USS Ludlow is damaged by shore battery fire off Anzio, again, 41°28'N, 12°30'E. 1945 Operation Veritable, the 1st Canadian Army's assault on the German defences in the Reichwald and Moyland Wood, begins today.
USS Houston's heavy antiaircraft fire saves the convoy from destruction, but the imminent fall of Timor results in the recall of the convoy and its routing back to Darwin.
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 WarData.net Battles 1750-1975 Timeline
USS Wasp vs HMS Frolic, Naval Battle of
USS Wasp vs HMS Poictiers, Naval Battle of
USS Wasp vs HMS Reindeer, Naval Battle of
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 The Imperial Presidency: This Far and No Further
The standard procedure for the pirates was to seize a ship, impound its cargo, enslave its crew, and then offer peace and the return of the captured sailors in exchange for allowing the pirates to keep the ships and let them ply the waters of the Atlantic and Mediterranean without hindrance.
Approval for Polk's actions quickly dimmed in the face of his violation of the Constitution, and Congress, turned over to the Whigs (later the Republican Party) after an election that was largely in repudiation of Polk's Democrats, voted to condemn Polk's military aggression.
An American warship, the Cyane, was sent to the Nicaraguan port of Greytown to respond to "insults" given to American merchants by local officials stemming from disputes between Nicaraguan and American businessmen; when the officials refused to apologize, the Cyane bombarded the town.
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 AmericanHeritage.com / Six Ships That Shook the World
One of these ships —the USS Constitution—survives as the world’s oldest commissioned naval vessel, maintained by the Navy at the decommissioned Charlestown Navy Yard not far from the site on the old Boston waterfront where she was launched almost two centuries ago on October 21, 1797.
By early 1796 work on the six frigates was again stymied, this time by political events.
When the Cyane attempted to maneuver behind Constitution and expose her to deadly raking fire (a broadside fired the length of an opponent’s deck), Capt. Charles Stewart put his sails aback and threw the Constitution into reverse —no small feat for a 3,000-ton sailing vessel—and cut the Cyane off.
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 Facts about uss constitution
USS Constitution Museum - Teachers Curriculum, All Hands on Deck
United States Marine Corps - USS Constitution Detachment
The U.S.S. Constitution Battleship of 1812 - Maritime War History : War...
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 List of ships of the United States Navy - Gurupedia
USS Albatross (1861, 1882, SP-1003, AM-71, YMS-80, MSC-289)
USS Ranger (1777, 1814, 1814, 1876, 1917, 1918, CC-4, CV-4,
USS Washington (schooner, row galley, frigate, galley, 1814, 1833, 1837, ACR-11, BB-47,
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