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NavSource Online: "Old Navy" Ship Photo Archive USS Wild Cat (I) Schooner
Build, date and location unknown
Purchased in late 1822 at Baltimore, MD. for service with Commodore David Porter's "mosquito fleet" to suppress piracy in the West Indies
Commissioned USS Wild Cat early in 1823 at Norfolk, VA., LT. Charles W. Skinner in command
Wild Cat was one of eight, shallow-draft Chesapeake Bay schooners acquired to give the West Indies Squadron the capability of pursuing pirates into the shoal waters along the coasts of Cuba and Puerto Rico
Wild Cat departed Hampton Roads, 15 February 1823, in company with the other ships of Commodore Porter's squadron, arriving on station, 5 March 1823, off the coast of Puerto Rico
Wild Cat intermittently patrolled the northern coast of Cuba and Puerto Rican waters for the next 18 months searching for pirates and escorting convoys of merchantmen.
In the fall of 1823, yellow fever broke out among the crews of the squadron causing them to return north
During the remaining months of 1823, she completed repairs and recruited replacements for her decimated crew
Early in 1824, Wild Cat returned south with the squadron and resumed her anti-piracy patrols and escorting merchantmen
She continued that duty until the summer of 1824 when yellow fever again broke out
Early in June, she was sent ahead of the squadron to carry word to Washington that squadron was returning north to recoupe the health of the crews
Wild Cat returned to the West Indies that fall and resumed the campaign against the pirates
Final Disposition sank with all hands during a storm in October 1824 Specifications:
Displacement 48 t.
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth of Hull unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement 31
Armament three guns
Propulsion sail Click On Image
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