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    The first USS Argus, originally named USS Merrimack, was a brig in the United States Navy commissioned in 1803. She enforced the Embargo Act of 1807 and...
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  • USS Argus may refer to one of these United States Navy ships: USS Argus (1803), a brig commissioned in 1803 that served in the First Barbary War and the...
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  • and later sunk off Cape Cod USS Argus (1803), a brig laid down as USS Merrimack in 1803 but renamed prior to completion USS Merrimack (1855) a screw frigate...
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    location of the present Coast Guard base. He also built USS Boston (1799), USS Argus (1803), and USS Independence (1814). Hartt and his descendants lived...
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    Stewart was appointed in command. She was sharper, but smaller than USS Argus (1803), yet carried the same armament. Both vessels were built the same year...
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    honor of Lt. William Henry Allen, who was killed while commanding the USS Argus (1803) during the War of 1812. Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen purchased...
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    Tripolitan coast with USS Argus, USS Constitution, USS Syren, USS Nautilus, USS Enterprise and USS Scourge. Later in August USS John Adams and USS Intrepid joined...
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    Stephen Decatur (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    States. There he took temporary command of the newly built 18-gun brig USS Argus which he sailed to Gibraltar, relinquishing command of the ship upon arrival...
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    USS Philadelphia, he sailed the Mediterranean Sea until June 1802. Allen sailed back to the Mediterranean again from October 1802 until December 1803...
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    pages. USS A-1 (SS-2, SP-1370) USS A-2 (SS-3) USS A-3 (SS-4) USS A-4 (SS-5) USS A-5 (SS-6) USS A-6 (SS-7) USS A-7 (SS-8) USS AA-1 (SS-52/SF-1) USS AA-2...
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    Subsequently, Lieutenant Lawrence commanded the warships USS Vixen, USS Wasp and USS Argus. In 1810, he also took part in trials of an experimental spar...
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    engagement of the war in April and May 1805, the brig USS Argus, the schooner USS Nautilus and the sloop USS Hornet provided gun support for ten American marines...
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    Navy frigate USS Philadelphia captured when Philadelphia had run aground in Tripoli Harbor in October 1803. The supplies received from Argus enabled Eaton's...
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    1811, he was ordered to the command of Argus; and, between 12 October and 17 December 1812, cruised in Argus with the North Atlantic Squadron and took...
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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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    on 31 October 1803 after the American frigate had run fast aground on uncharted Kaliusa reef some five miles (8 km) east of Tripoli. USS Enterprise, a...
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    Charles Stewart (United States Navy officer) (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    1811. During the War of 1812, Stewart commanded, successively, USS Argus, USS Hornet, and USS Constellation. Since Constellation was closely blockaded in...
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    William Bainbridge (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    did not work, and decided to use force. On May 21, 1803, Bainbridge was placed in command of USS Philadelphia, tasked with enforcing a blockade of Tripoli...
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    on the verge of mutiny. Eaton had written to Captain Isaac Hull of the USS Argus requesting that the ship meet them there with supplies, but when they...
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    August 14 – HMS Pelican captures USS Argus 1813, September 5 – USS Enterprise captures HMS Boxer 1813, September 23 – USS President captures HMS Highflyer...
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    Isaac Hull (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    as first lieutenant of the frigate USS Adams. Hull later commanded the schooner USS Enterprise and the brig USS Argus, receiving promotion to the rank of...
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    Midshipman, USS General Greene – April 1799 to May 1801 Acting Lieutenant, USS Adams – June 1802 to November 1803 Second Lieutenant, USS Constellation...
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    John Rodgers (naval officer, born 1772) (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    ill-feeling. Early in 1811, Secretary of the Navy Hamilton had ordered USS President and USS Argus on patrol duty along the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas to...
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    sailed on 8 October with Congress, United States, and Argus. On 12 October, United States and Argus parted from the squadron for their own patrols. On 10...
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    | 26 August 1803 A brig cruiser belonging to the Emperor of Morocco. Captured by USS Philadelphia, commanded by William Bainbridge. USS Philadelphia...
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    shortages of the latter), the two brigs were close copies of the contemporary USS Hornet. The heaviest armament for the ships came from foundries on Chesapeake...
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    the navy's best ships to the region throughout 1802. USS Argus, Chesapeake, Constellation, USS Constitution, Enterprise, Intrepid, Philadelphia, Vixen...
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    between USS Peacock and HMS Epervier would highlight. When HMS Epervier lost her main topmast and had her foremast damaged she was disabled. USS Wasp, in...
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    of stores and ammunition, as well as the 44-gun frigate USS Columbia and the 22-gun USS Argus, both new vessels nearing completion. The Navy Yard's Latrobe...
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    well as houses for workmen. The fort was damaged by winter storms and in 1803, plans were made for a new fort on the higher ground behind the original...
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