Career (US) | |
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Name: | USS Gallatin |
Laid down: | c 1807 |
Launched: | c 1807 |
Commissioned: | c 1812 |
Fate: | exploded, and sank 1 April 1813 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | not known |
Length: | not known |
Beam: | not known |
Speed: | not known |
Complement: | not known |
USS Gallatin (1807) was a post-Revolutionary War sailing vessel purchased by the U.S. Department of the Treasury at Norfolk, Virginia, for the Revenue Cutter Service in December 1807.
In the ensuing years, she was active in suppressing smuggling and in assisting American Merchantmen.
Acting under Navy orders during the War of 1812, she intercepted a British "letter of marque" sailing from Jamaica for England and took her after a fierce eight-hour battle 6 August 1812. She subsequently captured several merchantmen.
She caught fire at Charleston, South Carolina, exploded, and sank 1 April 1813.