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I There is little detailed information available on the exploits of the first five HORNET's, but what recognition we have. of their missions and accomplishments for the United States Navy definitely acknowledges them as some of the most distinguished fighting ships in American Naval History. . The FIRST HORNET was a 10 gun sloop equipped at Baltimore, Maryland, by the Continental Marine Committee in the fall of 1775. Under the command of Captain John Nicholson in January of '77 HORNET was ordered to escort a convoy of merchantmen ufairly out to seaf' This was no easy task, because the British had vessels blockading their route. But HORNET managed to evade them and bring the merchants safely to sea. ' On her return from this cruise, HORNET was attached to Commodore Saltonstalls squadron in the Delaware River. This proved to be a fatal assignment for HORNET, because with the fall of the forts guarding the approaches to Philadelphia of November 17, 1777, the American vessels under Saltonstall were left without protection. Therefore Captain Nicholson was given orders to destroy HORNET to prevent her from falling into enemy hands. The SECOND HORNET, purchased at Malta in 1805, was a 10-gun sloop. She was commanded by Lieutenant Samual Evans and was assigned to Commodore Rodgers' Squadron in the Mediterranean during the Tripolitan War. In March of that year HORNET was ordered to Bomba, on the coast of Tripoli to aid General Eaton in the proposed attack on Derne. HORNET was instru- mental, due to her fire power, in bringing about a quick truce to the Tripolitan War. In 1806 she was sold out of service at Charleston, South Carolina. The THIRD HORNET, a 440 ton brig-rigged sloop of war, was launched at Baltimore, Maryland on July 28, 1805. She was a beautiful little vessel, modeled after the designs of French naval ships, and she carried an armament of eighteen 31-pounder caronades and two long six pounders on a flush spar deck, with neither poop. nor top gallant forecastle. On June 21, 1812, three days after the declaration of war HORNET put to sea. During this sea period HORNET overtook and captured two British vessels. This, HORNET's last cruise, was under the command Of Master Commandant Otho Norris in February 5, 1829, when she foundered in a heavy gale off Tampico, Florida, and was lost with all hands aboard. The FOURTH HORNET was a five gun schooner bought at Georgetown in 1813. She mounted one long 18-pounder and four 18-pound carronades. Between 1813 and 1820, she was commanded successively by Lieutenant Lewis B. Page, Lieutenant Jesse Wilkinson, Lieutenant James Ramage, and finally by Lieutenant John P. Zantzinger prior t0 being Sold ont of Service in 1820, The ,FIF T H HORNET was an iron side-wheel S 8 A I 'I A I steamer of the third rate. . On October 28, 1864-, during the Civil Ward, it was captured off New Inlet, North Carolina, by the USS 1 CALYPSO and EOLUS. She was taken into service, after capture, I under her original name of LADY STERLING, but on June 17, I i ' 'tt rratva W I Z 1865, the Navy Department ordered her renamed HORNET. , Under the command of Acting Master Joseph Avant, HORNET was ordered to accompany the RHODE ISLAND to Havana, Cuba in October 1865 for the purpose of receiving the surrender of the Confederate, Sam Stonewall. On June 26, 1869, she was sold out of service for SB33,000.00. The SIXTH HORNET, purchased on April 6, 1898 from Henry M. Flagler for 8117,500.00, was originally the steel steam yacht ALICIA, built by Harlin and Hollingsworth at Wilm- ington, Delaware in 1890. 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