Everything about Uss President 1800 totally explained
The first
USS President of the
United States Navy was a 44-gun
sailing frigate built by
Christian Bergh,
East River,
New York. It was launched
10 April 1800, and sailed from New York on her first cruise,
5 August 1800, Comdr.
Thomas Truxtun in command.
President was one of
the six original frigates authorized for construction by the
Naval Act of 1794.
President was the flagship of Commodore
Richard Dale in the Mediterranean in 1801 and 1802. She cruised in the Mediterranean in 1804 and 1805, participating in the actions against
Tripoli in the
Barbary Wars. She cruised off the eastern coast of the United States from 1809 to 1812. She sailed from
Annapolis, Maryland,
12 May 1811, meeting and firing on
HMS Little Belt, 22 guns, in one of the incidents leading up to the
War of 1812.
President sailed from New York
21 June 1812 with
United States,
Congress,
Hornet, and
Argus on a cruise in the
North Atlantic. Two days later she fell in with frigate
HMS Belvidera, and after a running fight of 8 hours,
Belvidera escaped. Putting into
Boston,
President sailed again
3 October 1812 for the North Atlantic returning to Boston
31 December.
She sailed from Boston
30 April 1813 on a cruise off the coast of
Europe. On
23 September she captured the
schooner HMS Highflyer, 5 guns, off New York, and arrived
Newport, Rhode Island,
27 September 1813. She sailed from
Providence, Rhode Island 4 December on a cruise to the
West Indies, returning to New York 15(?) February 1814, and was
blockaded there for almost a year by a British squadron consisting of
HMS Endymion,
HMS Majestic,
HMS Pomone and
HMS Tenedos.
She sailed from New York
14 January 1815 under Capt.
Stephen Decatur, and the next day was brought to action by the
Endymion. After a
hard-fought three-hour action, the
President finally surrendered when the
Pomone and
Tenedos came up to the pair.
The
President was commissioned into the
Royal Navy as
HMS President, after the existing
HMS President was renamed HMS
Piedmontaise later in 1815. She was originally to have been repaired (an Order to repair her was issued in March
1818, but was found to be too decayed, so a new ship was ordered (on
25 May 1818) to be built to her lines and the old ship was broken up at
Portsmouth, England, in June 1818.
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