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    USS Privateer (SP-179), later YP-179, was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1930. Privateer was...
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  • New Orleans Privateers, sports teams at the University of New Orleans Privateer Press, publisher of tabletop role-playing games USS Privateer (SP-179),...
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  • States Navy have been named USS Corsair, for the California rockfish, or a pirate or privateer, especially Turkish or Saracen. USS Corsair (SP-159) was built...
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    repulses the privateer American Tartar 1778, April 24 – USS Ranger captures HMS Drake (details) 1778, December – the Bristol privateer Tartar has an...
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    Service, as well as commissioning their own privateers. The first American ship to see action was the USS Ganges, a converted East Indiaman with 26 guns...
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  • USS Retaliation was the French privateer Croyable, built in Maryland, that then operated out of Santo Domingo. Delaware captured her on 7 July 1798 off...
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  • a brigantine which operated in the Continental Navy USS Retaliation (1798), was a French privateer captured by the United States during the Quasi-War This...
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  • USS Enterprise may refer to the following ships and other vessels: List of ships of the United States Navy named Enterprise USS Enterprise (1775), a Continental...
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  • Cutter Eagle in taking a privateer sloop. Sometime in October she and USS Pickering recaptured brig "Henrich". She took privateer brig "Ocean" on October...
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    The second USS Revenge was a cutter in the Continental Navy and later a privateer. William Hodge, an agent of the American commissioners to France, Benjamin...
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  • USS Nonsuch was a moderately successful privateer built in 1812 and then an armed schooner in the United States Navy during the War of 1812. She was sold...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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  • decommissioned in June 1993. USS Montgomery County was a World War II tank landing ship. Montgomery (sloop) was an American privateer during the War for Independence...
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  • ] that this vessel was a privateer instead of a commissioned warship. USS E. B. Hale (1861) USS Nathan Hale (SSBN-623) USS Roy O. Hale (DE-336) This...
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  • USS Columbia may refer to: USS Columbia (1813), a 44-gun frigate under construction, was burned in 1814 to prevent her capture by the British USS Columbia (1836)...
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  • served until sold in 1779 and continued to harass British shipping as a privateer. USS Revenge (1806) was a schooner purchased in 1806 and served during the...
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    USS Philadelphia, a 1240-ton, 36-gun frigate, was the second vessel of the United States Navy to be named for the city of Philadelphia. Originally named...
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  • 1807 she became a West Indiaman that two French privateers captured in late 1807 or early 1808. USS Herald (1861), a sailing ship, was one of a group...
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  • The Confederate privateers were privately owned ships that were authorized by the government of the Confederate States of America to attack the shipping...
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    officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers" due to his success as a blockade runner and commerce raider in the U...
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  • corsair is a privateer or pirate, especially: Barbary corsair, Ottoman and Berber privateers operating from North Africa French corsairs, privateers operating...
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    French privateer. On 20 November she and USS Adams off Guadeloupe recaptured schooner "Nancy", captured on 18 November by a French privateer. On 10 December...
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    the War of 1812, she was the first U.S. Navy ship to capture a British privateer. Hornet was launched 28 July 1805 in Baltimore and commissioned there...
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    July 7, 1798, occurred when the French privateer schooner La Croyable was taken by the American sloop-of-war USS Delaware on 7 July 1798 during the Quasi-War...
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    Sometime in October she and USS Delaware recaptured brig "Henrich". On 27 December, 1799 she captured a French privateer, possibly "Voltiguese". Pickering...
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    Jonathan Haraden (category American privateers)
    Jonathan Haradan (November 11, 1744 – November 23, 1803) was a privateer during the American Revolution. Haradan was born in 1744 in Gloucester, Massachusetts...
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  • was a bark built at Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1815 for service as a privateer USS Garland (AM-238), was a minesweeper launched 20 February 1944 This article...
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  • successful privateer operating out of Guadeloupe having captured 200 American merchant ships. "Conquest of Italy" was put in service as a tender for USS Constellation...
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    USS Kanawha (SP-169) USS Sovereign (SP-170) USS Quest (SP-171) USS Meline (SP-175) USS Privateer (SP-179), later YP-179 USS Sentinel (SP-180) USS Arcturus (SP-182) USS Hiawatha (SP-183)...
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    (T-AP-185) USS Privateer (SP-179/YP-179) USS Procyon (AG-11, AK-19/AKA-2, AF-61) USS Progress (AMc-98) USS Progressive (SP-2003) USS Project (AM-278) USS Prometheus...
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