USS Adams (1799)
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| Name: | USS Adams |
| Builder: | John Jackson and William Sheffield |
| Cost: | $76,622 |
| Laid down: | 30 July 1798 |
| Launched: | 8 June 1799 |
| Commissioned: | 23 September 1799 |
| Fate: | Scuttled 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Frigate |
| Tonnage: |
530 in june 1812 725 american ton or 783 english ton |
| Length: |
113 ft (34 m) 128 ft (39 m) in june 1812 |
| Beam: | 34 ft (10 m) |
| Depth: | 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) |
| Complement: | 220 officers and men |
| Armament: |
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530
113 ft (34 m)
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. Capt. Richard Valentine Morris took command of the ship.
The frigate departed New York in mid-September 1799 and headed for 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 a schooner from Boston which that vessel of prey had seized.
On 12 November, she again teamed with Insurgent in recapturing the 14-gun English brig Margaret. On the 15th, they took the French privateer Le Onze Vendémiaire. On the 20th, they cooperated in liberating the schooner Nancy which had struck her colors on the 18th.
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. Two more French schooners, L'Heureuse Rencontre and Isabella fell into her hands 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 another schooner named Nancy, one called Grinder, and an unidentified brig while capturing the brig Dove and the schooner Renommee.
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