USS Guerriere (1814)
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| Name: | USS Guerriere |
| Namesake: | HMS Guerriere |
| Ordered: | 1812 |
| Builder: | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 1812 |
| Launched: | 20 June 1814 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 December 1831 |
| In service: | 1815-1831 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1841 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | First class frigate |
| Tonnage: | 1508 |
| Length: | 175 ft (53 m) |
| Beam: | 45 ft 6 in (13.87 m) |
| Draft: | 14 ft 6 in (4.42 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Sail plan: | Full rigged ship |
| Complement: | 400 officers and enlisted |
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USS Guerriere was the first frigate built in the United States since 1801. The name came from a fast 38-gun British frigate captured and destroyed in a half-hour battle by USS Constitution on 19 August 1812. This victory was one of the United States' first in the War of 1812.
She was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under the supervision of Joseph and Francis Grice. She was launched on 20 June 1814 under the command of Commodore John Rodgers and attached to the Delaware Flotilla. She served in the United States Navy during the Second Barbary War.
After fitting out, she was transferred to the command of Captain Stephen Decatur and became the flagship of the squadron assembled at New York. She sailed from New York on 20 May 1815 to lead the squadron in terminating piratical acts against American merchant commerce by Algiers and other Barbary States.
On 17 June 1815, off the Algerian coast, the frigate Constellation drove the 44-gun frigate Meshuda, the flagship of the Algerian Fleet, under the guns of Decatur's flagship, Guerriere. With two broadsides, the American frigate drove below all who were not killed or disabled on Meshuda's decks, where after, Meshuda surrendered. Among her fatalities was Rais Hamidu, Algiers' ranking naval officer. Two days later, Guerriere led the squadron in driving the 22-gun Algerian brig Estedio ashore.
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