![]() USS Nautilus
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Name | USS Nautilus |
Builder | Spencer |
Cost | $18,763 |
Laid down | 1799 |
Acquired | Purchased, May 1803 |
Commissioned | 24 June 1803 |
Fate | Captured by Royal Navy, 6 July 1812 |
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Name | HMS Emulous |
Acquired | By capture 6 July 1812 |
Fate | Sold or broken up 1817 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner Rerigged as Brig 1810 |
Displacement | 185 long tons (188 t) |
Tons burthen | 213 (bm) |
Length | 87 ft 6 in (26.67 m) (overall) 71 ft 6 in (21.79 m) (keel) |
Beam | 23 ft 8 in (7.21 m) |
Depth of hold | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Complement | 103 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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Nautilus was a schooner launched in 1799. The United States Navy purchased her in May 1803 and commissioned her USS Nautilus; she thus became the first ship to bear that name. She served in the First Barbary War. She was altered to a brigantine. The British captured Nautilus early in the War of 1812 and renamed her HMS Emulous. After her service with the Royal Navy, the Admiralty sold her in 1817.
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