"USS Revenge Wreck Site (1811)" Topic

"The third U.S. Navy Revenge was a schooner purchased by Master Commandant (Commander) John Shaw for the Navy at New Orleans in December 1806. Prior to this she was named Ranger, built in Baltimore in 1805 by William Price and renamed Revenge by Shaw upon her purchase. She was initially commanded by Lieutenant Commandant (Lt.) Benjamin F. Read and stationed at New Orleans between December 1806 and June 1807. In June, Revenge was brought to Baltimore and fitted for a cruise to Europe with dispatches. In December, she was sent to the Atlantic coast under the command of Lt. Jacob Jones and assigned to Commodore John Rodgers' New York Flotilla. There she was part of the Flotilla and had the duty of blockading the U.S. coast to hinder attempts at foreign commerce prohibited by Jefferson's Embargo Act.

Lt. Oliver Hazard Perry relieved Jones of command of the schooner in 1809, and, with the repeal of the Embargo Act, Revenge expanded her operations. In the winter of 1810, Perry was sent to survey the harbors of Newport, Rhode Island, New London, Connecticut, and Gardiner's Bay, Long Island, New York. On 9 January 1811, off the coast of Rhode Island while returning to New London, Revenge encountered heavy fog "so thick as to envelop all on board Revenge in almost total darkness, and was accompanied with a heavy swell." It was in those moments Revenge ran aground as she struck a reef of rocks, and could not be got off; after all sailors and property were removed and everyone safely got to shore, the vessel was left to sink. Perry was cleared of responsibility for the loss by a court of inquiry. Flash forward to the 21st century, when the USS Revenge's whereabouts had long been forgotten and the Navy considered the vessel a loss, local divers began looking for her…"
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