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USS Cyane (I)

Frigate:

Built in 1796 at Frinsbury, England for the Royal Navy

Captured by USS Constitution, 20 February 1815

Commissioned into the US Navy as USS Cyane April 1815

Cruised off the west coast of Africa, 1819-20 and in the West Indies, 1820-21 to protect the Liberian colony, suppress piracy and disrupt the slave trade

Cruised in the Mediterranean, 1824-25

Cruised the Brazil Station, 1825-27

Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard, date unknown

Final disposition, sank in 1835, raised and broken up in 1836

Specifications:
Displacement 539 t.
Length 110'
Beam 31' 6"
Depth 17' 3"
Speed unknown
Complement 180

Armament

four 12-pdrs

twenty 32-pdr carronades

eight 18-pdr carronades

Propulsion sail

Size	Image Description	Contributed By
375k	"Capture of H.M. Ships Cyane & Levant, by the U.S. Frigate Constitution", 20 February 1815" Capture of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, by the U.S. Frigate Constitution, 20 February 1815. Lithograph by James Queen after a painting by Thomas Birch, published circa the mid-19th Century by P.S. Duval, Philadelphia, PA. It depicts the American frigate engaging *Levant* (at left) and *Cyane* (at right). *Constitution* was commanded by CAPT. Charles Stewart. US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo # NH 86692-KN. Courtesy of the U.S. Navy Art Collection, Washington, D.C.	US Naval History and Heritage Command
145k	1884 magazine engraving ~ "CONSTITUTION AND CYANE AND LEVANT". USF Constitution defeating HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, 20 February 1815.	Tommy Trampp
138k	USF Constitution defeating HMS Cyane and HMS Levant, 20 February 1815.	Arnold A. Putnam
94k	USF Constitution towing HMS Cyane, captured 28 February 1815, artist unknown. Library of Congress	Robert Hurst
67k	Newspaper article from the "Niles Weekly Register, Baltimore, 3 June 1820 reporting the return of USS Cyane from a tour of duty off the African coast where she was involved is suppressing the slave trade.	Tommy Trampp
363k	Model of HMS Cyane, scale 1:98	Tommy Trampp

USS Cyane (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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