USS Warren (1775)
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| Name: | USS Warren |
| Namesake: | Dr. Joseph Warren (1741–1775), doctor and soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
| Commissioned: | Late October 1775 |
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| Notes: | Originally fishing vessel Hawk |
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| Type: | Schooner |
| Tonnage: | 64 |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Sail plan: | Schooner-rigged |
| Complement: | 50 |
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The first USS Warren was a schooner that served in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1776.
Warren was originally the fishing schooner Hawk, probably built at Marblehead, Massachusetts, and owned by John Twisdon at the time of her appraisal for naval service in the American Revolutionary War by Colonel Jonathan Glover and Edward Fettyplace on 12 October 1775. Hurriedly fitted out as the fourth vessel of the fledgling seagoing force assembled by General George Washington to intercept British supply ships bound for Boston, Massachusetts, Warren was commissioned at Beverly, Massachusetts, late in October 1775. Under the command of Captain Winborn Adams, the armed schooner sailed from Beverly on 31 October 1775, on her maiden voyage under Continental colors.
Warren cruised north of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and captured a small wooden schooner before bagging a Boston-bound supply ship, the schooner Rainbow, around 27 November 1775.
Warren continued to cruise north of Cape Ann until she came across the brig Sally on 24 December 1775. Bound from Lisbon, Portugal, to New York City with 153 quarter casks of wine, Sally had been captured by the fifth-rate HMS Niger earlier in the month, placed under a prize crew, and ordered taken to Boston. Warren captured Sally and took her into Marblehead as a "Christmas present" for General Washington.
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