USS Revenge (1806)
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 United States
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| Acquired: | by purchase, 1806 |
| Fate: | Run aground, 9 January 1811 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Schooner |
| Length: | 70 ft (21 m) |
| Armament: | 12 × 6 pdr (2.7 kg) guns |
The third Revenge was a schooner in the United States Navy during the years preceding the War of 1812.
The Navy purchased the Baltimore-built schooner Ranger at New Orleans in December 1806. She was renamed and commissioned as Revenge. In 1807 she was ordered to the Atlantic coast under the command of Lt. Jacob Jones, joining Commodore John Rodgers' New York Flotilla, which assembled shortly after the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to protect shipping in the vicinity of the Hampton Roads. With the passage of Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act on 22 December 1807, the flotilla established a blockade of the US coast to prevent foreign commerce.
In 1809, Lt. Oliver Hazard Perry relieved Jones in command of Revenge. The passage of the Non-Intercourse Act on 1 March 1809 had removed most restrictions on foreign commerce (excepting France and Britain, which were at war with each other), and the ship widened her area of operation, cruising south to the tip of Florida and north to the coast of New England.
In April 1810, the schooner entered the Washington Navy Yard for repairs. The following July, while cruising off Charleston, South Carolina, Revenge was ordered to Amelia Island, Florida, then Spanish territory, to free an American ship, Diana, which had been seized in Spanish waters and placed under British colors. Undaunted by the presence of two British warships, Perry boarded the ship, manned her with a prize crew, and sailed away.
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