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USS Prometheus I

Schooner:

Built in 1814 as a hermaphrodite schooner by William Seguin, Philadelphia, PA.

Launched, date unknown

Purchased by the Navy in 1814 from Messrs. Savage and Dryan, the original owners, as the brig Escape

Fitted out and commissioned in 1814, as USS Prometheus at Philadelphia , Master Commandant J. J. Nicholson in command

Prometheus made a cruise to the West Indies from March to May 1815 to carry U.S. Senators Fromeatin and Brown to Havana

She sailed for Europe, 14 August 1816, to take Mr. Coles, special messenger from the President of the United States to the Emperor of Russia, returning to Boston 25 November

In 1817 she was employed in surveying the U.S. coast north of Newport, R.I.

In 1818 she operated along the southern coast and at New Orleans

In October 1818 she was pronounced unseaworthy and decommissioned

Dismantled and sold at auction at New Orleans in 1819

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 290 long tons
Length 82' (keel) 99' 9" overall
Beam 27' 6"
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft 11'4"
Speed unknown
Complement 50-60

Armament

in 1814

2 × 32-pounder guns

6 × 32-pounder carronades

4 × 9-pounder guns
in 1816

1 × 32-pounder gun

4 × 18-pounder carronades

4 × 9-pounder guns
in 1818

1 × 18-pounder gun

4 × 18-pounder carronades

6 × 9-pounder guns

Propulsion Sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
0986115301	12k	Sail plan of the United States Navy brig USS *Prometheus*, circa 1814. Scanned from The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development, by Chappelle, Howard I., Pub. W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., New York, 1949, ISBN 1-56852-222-3, Plate X, facing p. 185.		Robert Hurst

Prometheus I
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