USS Cyane (1806)

USS Cyane (1806)

"Cyane" was a Royal Navy sailing frigate built in 1806 at Plymouth, England. She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS "Columbine" and was renamed "Cyane" in December of that year. She was captured with HMS "Levant" 20 February 1815 by "Constitution", after a 40-minute night engagement off Madeira. With "Constitution's" second lieutenant Hoffman as prize master, she successfully escaped recapture by a pursuing British squadron 12 March and arrived in America 10 April. She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy and renamed USS "Cyane".

"Cyane" cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-1820 and in the West Indies from 1820-1821 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade. In this regard she was a predecessor to the Africa Squadron. She cruised in the Mediterranean 1824-1825, and on the Brazil Station 1826-1827. Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard, she sank in 1835 and was raised and broken up the following year.

In the April/May 1983 issue of "American Heritage" magazine is a short article "What it was like to be Shot up by Old Ironsides" concerning the discovery of 3 pages of the HMS "Cyane" logbook from February 13, 1815 to February 20 1815 with a transcription of the Feb 20, 1815 battle.

References

*DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/c16/cyane-i.htm


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