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USS Montezuma (I)

Ship:
  • Built as a merchant ships in 1785 at Virginia
  • Acquired by the Navy 26 June 1798 from William Taylor at Baltimore, MD., for service against "quasi-war" with France
  • Placed in service in August 1798, CAPT. Alexander Murray in command
  • Montezuma sailed from Baltimore 3 November with brig USS Norfolk, cutter USRC Eagle, and brigRetaliation for the West Indies to protect American merchantmen and search for French men-of-war
  • The ships encountered two enemy vessels 20 November and gave chase, capturing without a fight brig Fair American
  • Montezuma continued on her duty in the West Indies, convoying merchant ships to various Caribbean ports into 1799
  • On 7 March Montezuma captured French brig Les Amis, off Curacao
  • Ordered home in mid-March she and arrived at Philadelphia after convoying 57 merchant ships to various ports on the eastern seaboard 12 May 1799.
  • Montezuma sailed on her second voyage to the West Indies, 28 May, bound the Leeward Islands, escortIng U.S. shipping
  • Ordered to Jamaica to take on prize money, carrying it to Philadelphia, arriving Fort Mifflin 31 July
  • Norfolk departed Fort Mifflin 4 August dispatched to St. Kitts to pick up French prisoners for immediate return to Baltimore
  • Montezuma loaded 50 prisoners and departed on the 30th to return Baltimore, arriving 14 September
  • She remained at Baltimore while all her armament and stores were removed, preparatory to being sold
  • Sold to her original owner, William Taylor of Baltimore 30 December 1799
  • Reequipped for merchant service she sailed the Atlantic on a Baltimore-Liverpool run
  • Final Disposition, disposed of some years before the beginning of the war of 1812
    Specifications:
    Displacement 347 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 16'
    Speed unknown
    Complement 180
    Armament twenty 9-pdrs
    Propulsion sail
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