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Name: | USS Warren |
Namesake: | Dr. Joseph Warren (1741-1775), doctor and soldier killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill |
Builder: | Webster |
Cost: | 34702 dollars |
Launched: | 26 september 1799 |
Commissioned: | Probably November or December 1799 |
Fate: | Sold by 1 June 1801 |
General characteristics | |
Type: | Sloop-of-war |
Tonnage: | 360 or 385 |
Propulsion: | Sails |
Sail plan: | Ship-rigged |
Complement: | 160 |
Armament: | 20 guns |
The third USS Warren was a sloop-of-war that served in the United States Navy from 1799 to 1801.
Warren was a copper-sheathed sloop-of-war contracted for at Newburyport, Massachusetts, but actually built by an association of shipbuilders at Salisbury, Massachusetts. On 6 July 1799, while she was still under construction, Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert ordered Master Commandant Timothy Newman to take command of Warren. The ship was fitted out there, into the winter of 1799, and probably was commissioned in either November or December of 1799.
Assigned the duty of protecting American commerce in Cuban waters against the possible incursions of French warships or privateers during the "Quasi War" with France, Warren set sail for Havana, Cuba, on 31 December 1799, escorting the schooner Trio. Trio was laden with stores for the American men-of-war on the Havana station. As the ships stood out of Nantasket Roads, near Boston, Massachusetts, Sailing Master Joseph Whitmore, in Warren, penned fervently in his journal, "God send us safe to our orders End in our Lawfull (sic) Ways in supporting our Independence."