American Fifth Rate frigate 'Insurgent' (1799)

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Insurgent
Nominal Guns	36
Nationality	United States of America
Operator	United States Navy
Previously	French Fifth Rate frigate 'L'Insurgente' (1793) (32) 1793-1799 French 32 Gun 5th Rate Frigate
Captured	9.2.1799
Shipyard	Lorient - Brittany	NNF-1792
Ship Class	Semillante Class (1790)	NNF-1792
Designed by	Pierre-Joseph PénétreauFrench Ship Builder	NNF-1792
Category	Fifth Rate
Ship Type	Frigate
Sailing Rig	Ship Rigged
Foundered	20.9.1800

Dimensions

DimensionMeasurementTypeMetric EquivalentDANFS
Length of Gundeck148' 0"Imperial Feet45.1104
Breadth37' 5"Imperial Feet11.2957
Depth in Hold11' 9"Imperial Feet3.5814

1 Warrant Officer

DatesRankNameSource
5.3.1799 - Acting Boatswainref:1203

Service History

DateEventSource
15.11.1799Took the Privateer

Sources

IDNameAuthorType

DANFSUnknown, Web Site

NNF-1792Alain Demerliac, Book

ref:1203Dudley W. Knox, Book

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Posted by Jon Miller on Sunday 31st of May 2026 16:20

Hull, 13 January 1800: The American frigate Insurgent, Capt Murray, has been cruizing of Lisbon; and was setting sail from that place about the 20th of Sept to cruize off Cadiz and Algiers, for the protection of the American trade. This is the first American ship of war that has approached the shores of Europe, to exercise the trade of war. [Hull Packet, 14 January 1800]

Posted by Jon Miller on Sunday 31st of May 2026 16:19

To be sold by auction, by William Seaman, at the King's Head in Great-Yarmouth, on the 12th day of February, 1800, the Genet, now lying in Yarmouth Haven, prize to his Majesty’s ships of war in the North Seas, American built, 6 years old, admeasuring 167 tons, rigged as a ship. [Hull Packet, 14 January 1800]

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