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	uss vixen (1803) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Vixen was one of four vessels authorized by Congress on 28 February 1803.
		She was built at Baltimore, Maryland, in the spring of 1803; and launched on 25 June, Lieutenant John Smith in command.
		During one of her war cruises among the West Indies, Vixen was chased, intercepted, and captured by the 32-gun British frigate HMS Southhampton on 22 November 1812.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/uss-vixen-(1803) (453 words)

	Vixen Hill Manufacturing -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The fourth ''Vixen'' was a gunboat, acquired in 1861 and decommissioned in 1862.
		The fifth ''Vixen'' (PY-4) was a yacht, built in 1896, acquired in 1898 and decommissioned in 1922.
		The sixth ''Vixen'' (PG-53) was a gunboat, commissioned in 1941 and decommissioned in 1946.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/162/vixen-hill-manufacturing.html (1435 words)

	Vixen
		Vixen participated in all these actions, and performed valuable tactical service by helping to coordinate the movements of the various American vessels.
		During one of her war cruises among the West Indies, Vixen was chased, intercepted, and captured by the 32-gun British frigate HMS South-hampton on 22 November 1812.
		An early artist's rendition of USS Vixen after she was rerigged as a brig in 1804.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/v4/vixen-i.htm (449 words)

	USS Vixen at AllExperts
		* The fourth Vixen was a gunboat, acquired in 1861 and decommissioned in 1862.
		* The fifth Vixen (PY-4) was a yacht, built in 1896, acquired in 1898 and decommissioned in 1922.
		* The sixth Vixen (PG-53) was a gunboat, commissioned in 1941 and decommissioned in 1946.
	en.allexperts.com /e/u/us/uss_vixen.htm (192 words)

	USS Syren by José Barreto
		The USS Syren was built in Philadelphia in 1803 by Benjamin Hutton.
		This boat served during the 1812 War and was also involved in the Algeciras siege, together with the Argus, the Vixen and the Constitution, amongst others.
		The siren figure, included in the original plan, was changed after the boat was captured in 1812, as well as some other elements afore, as can been seen in the plan on page 185 of the book written by Chapelle.
	www.modelismonaval.com /magazine/syren/syreni.htm (233 words)

	Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon Branch
		She was relieved by the USS DALE and returned to Norfolk on 15 September 1842 where she was laid up in ordinary again.
		USS BOSTON's role off the coast of South America was probably to observe the movements of the foreign fleets and to be prepared to offer assistance to the embassy and American citizens ashore, as required.
		While enroute to her new station, under the command of Commander George F. Pearson, USS BOSTON was wrecked on Eleuthera Island, in the Bahamas, during a squall in November 1846.
	balder.prohosting.com /shissem/Hissem_Heysham-Gibbon_Branch.html (19998 words)

	U.S.S PICKING DD-685
		U.S.S. December 1, 1943 Zone description plus four: 00-24 Moored port side to U.S.S. at berth 36, pier 3, NOB, Norfolk Va. SOPA is Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; in U.S.S. December 2, 1943.
		SOPA is CTF 94 in U.S.S. Underway steaming various courses to moor alongside U.S.S. to fuel.
		SOPA is CTF 94 in U.S.S. Underway in company with destroyers of Task Force 94 in accordance with CTF 94 Exercise Plan 2-44 of April.
	members.fortunecity.com /scottsworldwar2page/picking.htm (12101 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, C4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		From March 1803 she was employed as a guard ship at Gravesend on the Thames.
		On 14 June 1803 CRUIZER was involved with JALOUSE (q.v.) and the frigate IMMORTALITE in the capture of two French gun vessels, INABORDABLE, schooner and COMMODE, brig, each mounting three 24-pounders and one 18-pounder.
		On 3 February 1803 the volunteer seamen brought from Ireland in ESCORT, RAMBLER and GANNET were sent on board her and GOURAGEUX.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /C4.HTM (14540 words)

	Marine Corps Legacy Museum - Battle History of the USMC - War with Tripoli or Barbary Pirates War 1801-1805
		In Oct. of 1803, The U.S. frigate Philadelphia, while on a punitive raid was captured after running aground with 43 Marines and the crew taken.
		A plan was submitted by William Eaton, (to replace the belligerent Pasha Yusuf Karamanti with his brother Hamet,) and was approved by President Jefferson.
		On 29 Nov. O'Bannon, a Sergeant, and 6 Marines landed with Eaton and by March 8, set out with Hamet, and 500 men, some Greek mercenaries paid for with American gold: along with 107 camels overland through the desert to capture Tripoli and install Hamet as the new ruler.
	www.mclm.com /gallery/tripoli_war.html (497 words)

	Bermuda's History from 1700 to 1899
		The former Royal Navy gunboats Vixen and her sister ship the Viper were towed to Bermuda as coast defence ships after reaching the end of their careers.
		H.M.S. Vixen displaced 1,230 tons and was built by Lungley Shipyard, Deptford, England, in 1864, and launched in1867.
		After removal of her engines and machinery, the former Royal Navy gunship HMS Vixen, towed to Bermuda in 1888, was scuttled to block a narrow channel off Daniel's Head.
	www.bermuda-online.org /history1700-1899.htm (8938 words)

	Common Ground Common Sense
		USS Reprisal vs. HMS Swallow, 5 February 1777.
		USS Bon Homme Richard vs. HMS Serapis, 23 September 1779.
		Between 1803 and 1813 2,549 muskets and 100 rifles had been charged to the United States Navy (it is interesting to note that this is 549 more muskets than were reported delivered during the same period).
	www.commongroundcommonsense.org /forums/index.php?showtopic=30255&st=20 (8027 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/James Lawrence
		He was commissioned a lieutenant on April 6, 1802 and served aboard USS Enterprise in the Mediterranean, taking part in a successful attack on enemy craft on 2 June 1803.
		The first USS Lawrence was a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie until she was destroyed in that action.
		The third USS Lawrence (DD-8) was a 400-ton destroyer, commissioned in 1903 and serving until 1920.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/James_Lawrence (777 words)

	Jonathan Meredith at AllExperts
		Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Meredith enlisted in the Marine Corps 6 June 1803 and was promoted to sergeant 1 August of the same year.
		During an engagement in the harbor of Tripoli 3 August 1805, Sergeant Meredith saved the life of Lieutenant John Trippe of USS Vixen, who with a party of nine men had boarded a Tripolitan ship.
		Four days later Meredith was killed in the explosion of Gunboat No. 3 during a similar attack against the Tripolitans.See USS Meredith, for ships that have been named in his honor.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/jonathan_meredith.htm (213 words)

	United States of America Congressional Gold Medal USS Constitution
		The USS Constitution has now graced the United States with her service for more than two hundred years.
		Authorized by Congress in 1794, built in 1797, and launched in 1798, Constitution saw action in one undeclared war and two official wars and was a powerful arm of the United States military capable of carrying American firepower to distant parts of the globe.
		The highlight of her military action in that conflict was the bombardment of Tripoli with the rest of the U.S. fleet in late summer 1804.
	www.congressionalgoldmedal.com /USSConstitution.htm (9767 words)

	James_lawrence info here at en.14k-gold.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The inceptive USS Lawrence was a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship throughout the Battle of Lake Erie she was dismantled in that action.
		The trivial USS Lawrence was with a brig, serving from 1843-1846.
		The fourth USS Lawrence (DD-250) was a Clemson-class destroyer, serving from 1921 to 1945 The fifth USS Lawrence (DDG-4) was a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer.
	en.14k-gold.info /James_Lawrence (917 words)

	HMS Victorious
		In response to an American plea for carrier reinforcement, HMS Victorious was withdrawn from the Home Fleet and sent to the United States for a refit to suit her to the conditions of war in the Pacific: amongst other, more warlike, modifications, she was also fitted with an ice cream maker and Coca Cola machines.
		By May 1943 she was ready to join USS Saratoga on operations in the Pacific, and, with the American carrier, provided cover to the fleet assembled for the invasion of New Georgia in the Solomon Islands.
		For the purposes of security, signals generally referred to HMS Victorious as "USS Robin" while she was serving alongside the Americans, but she was fairly universally known to them as ‘the Limey flat top’.
	home.att.net /~b.lockyer/hms_victorious.htm (1220 words)

	Remembering Richard Somers: naval martyrdom in the Tripolitan War. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		ON 2 APRIL 1949, the USS Spokane, a modern naval cruiser, anchored off the historic Mediterranean port of Tripoli.
		After dutifully commanding the USS Nautilus, a twelve-gun sloop, and fighting footpads ashore in Syracuse while unarmed, Somers captained a gunboat.
		In his journal, Midshipman Charles Morris of the USS Constitution recalled an anxious night whereby "different opinions were entertained as to the manner in which the explosion took place." No official consensus had yet developed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-158156555.html (5878 words)

	USS Constitution
		In 1803 amid growing demand for tribute and increasing seizures by the Barbary pirates, Constitution was recommissioned under Captain Edward Preble and sailed as flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron on 14 August.
		In this battle of only half an hour the United States "rose to the rank of a first-class power"; the country was fired with fresh confidence and courage; and union among the States was greatly strengthened.
		A public grateful for her protective services once again rescued her from imminent destruction in 1905 and she was thereafter partially restored for use as a national museum.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/constitution_frigate.html (10010 words)

	The Barbary Wars--Capture of USS Philadelphia, 31 October 1803
		The Barbary Wars--Capture of USS Philadelphia, 31 October 1803
		In October 1803 the U.S. Frigate Philadelphia (Captain William Bainbridge) and Schooner Vixen arrived off Tripoli, with which the United States had been at war, though without much energy, for nearly two and a half years.
		Stranding and capture of USS Philadelphia, 31 October 1803
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/events/barb-war/capt-phl.htm (478 words)

	USS Ohio
		Ohio was admitted to the Union 1 March 1803, as the 17th State.
		Quarter Master Frederick Boyer, subject of one of the earliest known portraits of a U.S. Navy enlisted man, served in the ship of the line USS Ohio while she was receiving ship at the Boston Navy Yard during the early 1840s.
		The impressive Hercules figurehead was carved from a single piece of cedar at a cost of $1,500.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/sol/ohio_sol.html (720 words)

	meredith
		The first USS MEREDITH (DD 165) was built by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts.
		USS Meredith was placed in commission 1 March 1941 with Lieutenant Commander W.K. Mendenhall, USN,
		The career of the USS MEREDITH (DD434) was brief but within the short span of her life she contributed
	home.att.net /~dd748/meredith.html (1668 words)

	James Lawrence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was commissioned a lieutenant on April 6, 1802 and served aboard USS Enterprise in the Mediterranean, taking part in a successful attack on enemy craft on 2 June 1803.
		The first USS Lawrence was a brig which acted as Commodore Oliver Perry's flagship during the Battle of Lake Erie until she was destroyed in that action.
		The third USS Lawrence (DD-8) was a 400-ton destroyer, commissioned in 1903 and serving until 1920.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Lawrence (692 words)

	Bringing Richard Somers Home
		He was the captain of the U.S.S. Intrepid when it exploded in Tripoli harbor on September 4, 1804, during the battle of Tripoli, which inspired the lines in the U.S. Marine corps hymn, “….from the Halls of Montezuma, to the Shores of Tripoli.”
		Buried by American prisoners from the captured frigate USS Philadelphia, Somers, two other officers – Lt. Henry Wadsworth (Uncle of Longfellow), Charles Israel, and ten sailors and marines were laid to rest a few hundred yards east of the old Bashaw’s castle, now a museum.
		Instead, the remains of Lt. Richard Somers and the 12 man crew of the USS Intrepid are buried in a small park near Tripoli harbor where they died on September 4, 1804.
	www.richardsomers.org /rs_pages/rs_news.html (10876 words)

	CHRONOLOGY
		1803 – June 24 - Somers and Nautilus ordered to join the Mediterranean squadron under command of Captain Edward Preble.
		1803 – November 7 – The Argus, under Stephen Decatur, joins Nautilus and Constitution in Gibraltar.
		1804 – September 6 – Captain Bainbridge, skipper of the scuttled USS Philadelphia, and ship’s doctor Dr. Cowdery and a detachment of prisoners find 13 bodies washed ashore Tripoli harbor, three identified as officers, which are buried 100 yards south of the harbor near the castle.
	www.richardsomers.org /rs-09.htm (1450 words)

	Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy A2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An ALARM Revenue cutter was stationed at Exeter in 1784 and an ALARM lugger is recorded at Dartmouth in 1803 with a Capt. SEARLE for the impressment of seamen.
		Stoker Denis BURKE of VIXEN fought his way into the fort and captured the enemy colours and then after a short period of hand to hand fighting with pistol and cutlass the Nicaraguans fled.
		She was employed in raising men but, on the afternoon of 24 June 1803, she gave chase to a cutter in the Channel and brought her to close action at 5 o'clock.
	www.cronab.demon.co.uk /A2.HTM (21549 words)

	USS Trippe (DD-403), Benham-class destroyer
		The third USS Trippe, DD 403, was laid down on 15 April 1937 by the Boston Navy Yard, launched on 14 May 1938; sponsored by Miss Betty S. Trippe and placed in commission on 1 November 1939, Lt. Comdr.
		John Trippe, born in 1785 in Dorchester County, Maryland, was appointed a midshipman in the Navy on 5 April 1799.
		Vixen then continued peacefully on her way and put into Havana, Cuba.
	www.destroyerhistory.org /goldplater/usstrippe.html (744 words)

	DANFS: USS Meredith (DD-434) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jonathan Meredith, born in Bucks County, Pa., about 1772, enlisted in the Marine Corps 6 June 1803 and was promoted to sergeant 1 August of the same year.
		During an engagement in the harbor of Tripoli 3 August 1805, Sergeant Meredith saved the life of Lt. John Trippe of Vixen, who with a party of nine men had boarded a Tripolitan ship.
		Heavily outnumbered, the boarding party fought a fierce hand-to-hand combat, in which Trippe was severely wounded; Meredith protected him from what would have been the final blow.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd434.html (631 words)

	Freefire Zone Forums - The Barbary Pirates
		His command, the brand new frigate USS Philadelphia, 36 guns, was in serious trouble this night of October 31, 1803 in the harbor of Tripoli.
		In 1803, Commodore Edward Preble, who would turn out to be one the finest flag officers in American history, arrived in the staunch American frigate Constitution, 44 guns, with a number of other vessels.
		In late October 1803, the frigate Philadelphia, under the command of William Bainbridge, was dispatched to blockade the port.
	www.freefirezone.net /showthread.php?t=2873 (2440 words)

	Another Forgotten War
		By 1803, this fleet would include the Constitution 44 guns, the Constellation, the Chesapeake and the Philadelphia all of 36 guns.
		In October of 1803, the United States lost the Philadelphia when she went aground doing blockade duty.
		Other United States ships that were involved in the Barbary War included: the Argus, the Hornet, the Essex, the President, the Adams, the New York, the John Adams and the Vixen.
	umbrigade.tripod.com /articles/forgotten.html (974 words)

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