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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/USS Hornet (1805, brig)
The third USS Hornet was a brig-rigged sloop of war in the United States Navy.
Hornet was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October.
Hornet assisted in the blockade of HMS Bonne Citoyenne in the harbor at Salvador, Brazil and sank HMS Peacock (18) on 24 February, 1813.
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 USN Ships--USS Hornet (1805-1829)
USS Hornet, a 441-ton brig-sloop built at Baltimore, Maryland, was commissioned in October 1805.
In 1811 Hornet was converted to a ship-sloop at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C. Hornet rendered conspicuous service during the War of 1812.
On 23 March 1815, off Tristan da Cunha island, USS Hornet captured the British sloop Penguin, one of several actions between the U.S. and Royal Navies that took place after the War of 1812 had formally ended, but before all ships at sea had learned of the settlement.
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  USS Hornet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The third Hornet was a brig-rigged sloop of war was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October.
The fourth Hornet was a five gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1813 and 1820.
The seventh Hornet (CV-8) launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942 along with Enterprise, fought at the battle of Midway, and was sunk at the battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 26 October 1942.
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 USS Hornet (1805, brig) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The third USS Hornet was a brig-rigged sloop of war in the United States Navy.
Hornet was launched on 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned on 18 October.
Hornet assisted in the blockade of HMS Bonne Citoyenne in the harbor at Salvador, Brazil and sank HMS Peacock (18) on 24 February 1813.
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 USS Hornet - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Hornet was decommissioned on December 15, 1865 and sold into private ownership.
The seventh Hornet (CV-8), along with the Enterprise (CV-6), launched the Doolittle Raid in 1942, fought at the Battle of Midway, but was sunk during the Battle of Santa Cruz on 26 October 1942.
The eighth Hornet (CV/CVA/CVS-12) was originally named USS Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II.
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 Early HORNETS
She sailed to Malta in 1805 under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Evans as part of Commodore Roger's Squadron.
HORNET was a converted yacht, purchased for use in the Spanish-American War.
In the ensuing bloody struggle, the seventh and eighth HORNETS, CV-8 and CV-12, would bring everlasting fame and glory to the name with their illustrious wartime careers against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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 United States of America Congressional Gold Medal Recipient James Lawrence
In 1811 Hornet was converted to a ship-sloop at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C..
USS Chesapeake, a 36-gun frigate of 1244 tons, was built at the Gosport Navy Yard, at Portsmouth, Virginia.
USS Lawrence, first of a two-ship class of 400-ton destroyers built at Weymouth, Massachusetts, was commissioned in April 1903.
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 USS Constitution wooden model tall ship from handcrafted model ships.
The USS Constitution is made of timber from Maine to Georgia and armed with cannons cast in Rhode Island and copper fastenings provided by Paul Revere.
Her sides are made of iron!" Hence, her nickname,"Old Ironsides." When her war service ended in 1815, the battle-scarred USS Constitution was laid up for almost six years for extensive repairs, after which she went on two cruises to the Mediterranean.
USS Constitution was recommissioned in 1931 for a coast-to-coast tour of ninety American cities lasting until 1934 when she was returned to her place of honor in the Boston Harbor at Charlestown Navy Yard.
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 Ships Named Enterprise History
The brigs opened fire on each other, and in a closely fought, fierce and gallant action which took the lives of both commanding officers, Enterprise captured Boxer and took her into nearby Portland, Maine.
The brig reached Wilmington, N.C., on 9 March 1814, then passed the remainder of the was as a guardship off Charleston, S.C. Enterprise served one more short tour in the Mediterranean (July-November 1815), then cruised the northeastern seaboard until November 1817.
Despite serious damage, she continued in action and took on board a large number of planes from Hornet when that carrier had to be abandoned.
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 War of 1812 Encyclopedia Article @ ChangeCanada.com (Change Canada)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In all of these actions—except the one in which Essex was taken—the Americans had the advantage of greater size and heavier guns.
An example of this was the engagement between USS President and a heavy British squadron in January 1815.
Halifax Nova Scotia was the Royal Navy base that supervised the blockade and it grew rich during the war.
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 USS President
She cruised in the Mediterranean in 1804 and 1805, participating in the actions against Tripoli.
In the middle of May 1811, rumors abounded in the Hampton Roads area of a sea battle between unknown forces in the vicinity of the Virginia Capes.
The latest case of impressment had occurred on 1 May. HMS Guerriere had stopped the American brig Spitfire near Sandy Hook, New Jersey and had taken from her the master apprentice, John Diggio, a Maine native.
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 War of 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The ships included the frigate USS President and the sloop USS Hornet under Commodore John Rodgers (who had general command), and the frigates USS United States and USS Congress, with the brig USS Argus under Captain Stephen Decatur.
On June 1, 1813, the frigate USS Chesapeake was captured, as it attempted to leave Boston Harbor, by the British frigate HMS Shannon.
An example of the audacity of the American cruisers was the capture of the American sloop USS Argus at St David's Head in Wales by the more heavily armed British sloop HMS Pelican, on August 14, 1813.
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 Ship Modelers Association - Famous Ships
In this position, the USS HORNET poured in so heavy and well directed a fire, that, fifteen minutes later, the PEACOCK, having six feet of water in the hold and being cut to pieces in hull and masts, hoisted from her fore rigging an ensign, union down, as a signal of distress.
The USS HORNET’s superior gunnery destroyed the HMS PENGUIN, which was later scuttled, killing 10 to 25 of her crew including Commander James Dickinson.
USS HORNET arrived back in New York to great acclaim despite the fact that the war was over.
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 USS Essex
She participated in the successful attack on the town of Derne on 27 April 1805 and remained in these waters until the conclusion of peace terms in 1806.
Returning to the Washington Navy Yard in July, she was placed in ordinary until February 1809 when she was recommissioned for sporadic use in patrolling American waters and a single cruise to Europe.
USS Essex, a thirty-two gun frigate built in 1799 by the merchants of Salem, was known around the world for her speed and graceful lines, achieving a brilliant series of dramatic firsts for the young American Navy.
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 History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 5; Ch. 10. "The Guerrière and the Constitution."
It was the 19th of August, 1812, and Captain Isaac Hull (1773-1843) was on the quarter deck of the 44-gun, USS Constitution.
Then there was the encounter between HMS Peacock and the USS Hornet towards the end of February, 1813.
The men of the Hornet need not have worked so hard, for as soon as the Hornet rounded the Cape there came a British Man-o-war, she was aiming right for them.
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 Tanknet > USS Hornet (1805 Brig - Sloop)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
I am trying to do a bit of research on the USS Hornet, the brig which was built in 1805.
The Hornet was built in 1805 as a brig, but she lacked stability.
She was bebuit and rerigged as a ship in 1811-1812 with added planking and a less lofty ship rig (in a ship, the fore and main masts are shorter than in a brig of comparable size giving more stability).
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 War of 1812 Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
However, the United States Navy's sloops and brigs also won several decisive victories over Royal Navy vessels of approximately equal strength.
In addition to the blockade, the British Admiralty had instituted a new policy in which Royal Navy ships could engage their American counterparts only if in squadron strength or by ship-of-the-line.
An example of the audacity of the American cruisers was the depredations in British home waters carried out by the American sloop
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 War of 1812 - Databank
The ships included the frigate USS President and the sloop USS Hornet under Commodore John Rodgers (who had general command), and the frigates USS United States and USS Congress, with the brig USS Argus under Captain Stephen Decatur.
Meanwhile, USS Constitution, commanded by Captain Isaac Hull, sailed from the Chesapeake, on July 12.
An example of the audacity of the American cruisers was the capture of the American sloop USS Argus at St David's Head in Wales by the more heavily armed British sloop HMS Pelican, on August 14 1813.
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 USN Ships--USS Pennsylvania (1837-1861)
USS Pennsylvania, a 3241-ton (burden) 120-gun ship of the line, was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
This largest of the U.S. Navy's sailing warships was authorized in 1816, laid down some six years later and spent a decade and a half on the shipways.
On 20 April 1861, as Confederate forces threatened the Norfolk Navy Yard, USS Pennsylvania was burned to the waterline to prevent capture.
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 Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - Ships Of The World by Lincoln P. Paine
One of the U.S. Navy's six original frigates, authorized by Congress specifically as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean, USS Constitution was launched in 1797.
En route to join USS Essex and Hornet in the South Pacific, on December 29, 1812, Constitution was off the coast of Brazil in 13 minutes six minutes South, 31 degrees West, when she encountered HMS Java (38 guns) under Captain Henry Lambert.
Maintained as a museum ship at Boston, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world.
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SOPA is COMCARDIV 17 in USS HORNET (CVS 12).ÝMoored starboard side to Pier 6, Berth 63, U.S. Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California, with a standard destroyer moor plus a 1¼" spring lay out fore and aft.
SOPA is COMCARDIV 17 in USS HORNET (CVS 12).ÀMustered the crew at quarters.
SOPA is COMCARDIV 17 in USS HORNET (CVS 12).áMoored starboard side to Pier 6, Berth 63, U.S. Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California, with a standard destroyer moor plus a 1¼" spring lay fore and aft.
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The first USS Enterprise, a British supply sloop, was captured in May 1775 at St. Johns, Quebec, Canada, by Colonel B. Arnold, named Enterprise, and armed for use on Lake Champlain.
The brig reached Wilmington, N,C., on 9 March 1814, then passed the remainder of the war as a guardship off Charleston, S.C. Enterprise served one more short tour in the Medi-terranean (July-November 1815), then cruised the northeastern seaboard until November 1817.
Two days later she sortied as flagship of Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, CTF-16, with orders "to hold Midway and inflict maximum damage on the enemy by strong attrition tac-tics." With Enterprise in TF 16 were Hornet, 6 cruisers, and 10 destroyers.
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 ndex, list of blueprints
USS Sterett (TBD-27)(DD-27, July 17, 1920), was built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Massachusetts and commissioned on December 15, 1910.
Each year until 1913, she operated along the east coast out of Boston from April to December; and, from January to April, participated in training and battle exercises out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On June 28, she was sold for scrapping to M. Black and Co. of Norfolk, Virginia.
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 Colonial Shipping Papers
Well there was a Brig with this name mentioned that a mister Saul Pardo owned who was a Newport merchant that was heavily engaged in the slave trade.
The Hornet had a sea battle in 1813, 24 February: USS Hornet vs HMS Peacock.
Hornet, quickly bearing up, received the Peacock's starboard broadside; then, ran the latter close on board the starboard quarter.
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 War Of 1812   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Meanwhile, USS Constitution, commanded by Captain Isaac Hull, sailed from Chesapeake Bay on July 12.
On June 1, 1813, off Boston Harbor, the frigate USS Chesapeake, commanded by Captain James Lawrence, was captured by the British frigate HMS Shannon under Captain Sir Philip Broke.
An example of the audacity of the American cruisers was the depredations in British home waters carried out by the American sloop USS Argus, which was eventually captured off St David's Head in Wales by the more heavily armed British brig HMS Pelican, on August 14, 1813.
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