USS Prometheus (1814)

USS Prometheus (1814)

The first USS "Prometheus" was a brig in the United States Navy from 1814 to 1818.

"Prometheus" was built by William Seguin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; purchased in 1814 by the Navy from Messrs. Savage and Dryan, the original owners, as the brig "Escape"; commissioned and renamed "Prometheus", she was fitted out at Philadelphia by Master Commandant J. J. Nicholson.

In March–May 1815 she made a cruise to the West Indies to carry U.S. Senators Eligius Fromentin and James 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, Massachusetts, 25 November. In 1817 she was employed in surveying the U.S. coast north of Newport, Rhode Island, and in 1818 she operated along the southern coast and at New Orleans, Louisiana.

In October 1818 she was pronounced unseaworthy and decommissioned. "Prometheus" was dismantled and sold at auction at New Orleans in 1819.

See USS "Prometheus" for other ships of this name.


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