USS Warren (1827)
| History | |
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  United States
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| Name: | USS Warren |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 1825 |
| Launched: | 1827 |
| Commissioned: | 14 January 1827 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 May 1859 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1 January 1863 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sloop of war |
| Tonnage: | 697 |
| Length: | 127 ft (39 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft 9 in (10.29 m) |
| Depth: | 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Complement: | 190 officers and enlisted |
| Armament: | 20 × 32-pounder guns |
The fourth USS Warren was a second-class sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
Warren was built at the Boston Navy Yard between 1825 and 1827 and was commissioned at her builders on 14 January 1827, Master Commandant Lawrence Kearny in command.
Warren sailed for the Mediterranean on 22 February 1827 to stop Greek-flag pirates from victimizing American merchantmen. Unsettled conditions in the Near East and the Greek fight for independence had resulted in some excesses against third parties, notably American flag merchantmen. The piracy caused the American Mediterranean Squadron to establish a regular convoy system from Malta to Smyrna.
Warren sailed with a convoy of American vessels on 25 September 1827 and separated from them some 200 miles west of Kythira. On 4 October, Kearny's command bagged her first "piratical boat" and its crew of five. Later that same day, Warren captured a brig "peerced (sic) for 16 guns" flying the Greek flag. For the next three weeks, Warren cruised between Cape Matapan and Carabusa, touching occasionally to contact outward-bound American merchantmen.
While off Milos on 25 October, Kearny learned of recent pirate attacks on the American ships Cherub and Rob Roy. That same day, Warren chased a 10-gun pirate brig ashore at the island of Kimolos; but the brigands escaped to the nearby hills. Warren's men cut away the masts of the erstwhile pirate ship and stripped them of their sails, leaving the rigging submerged in the waters offshore.
Three days later, Warren came across Cherub and took possession of her. That evening, the brig Lexington arrived and assumed protective guard over Cherub while Warren returned to the pirate-hunt. The next day, between Tinos and Mykonos, Warren fell in with the Austrian brig Silence "robbed of everything." The American sloop-of-war towed Silence to Syros, where she left her in care of Lexington.
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