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Uss Epervier (1814) | align="center" colspan="2"| | | lign ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|Career | align ="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"| United States Navy Jack | | rdered: | | | aid down: | | | aptured: | 29 April 1814 | | ommissioned: | | | ecommissioned: | | | ate: | Lost at sea, 1815 | | truck: | | | olspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"|General Characteristics | | isplacement: | 447 tons | | ength: | 100 ft | | eam: | 30 ft 6 in | | raught: | 12 ft 9 in | | ropulsion: | | | peed: | | | ange: | | | omplement: | 128 officers and enlisted | | rmament: | 16 32-pdr., 2 18-pdr. | USS ''Epervier'' was a sloop in the United States Navy during the Second Barbary War. Epervier was captured by the sloop-of-war Peacock off Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 29 April 1814, during the War of 1812. Despite the extensive damage inflicted in this engagement, she was dispatched to Savannah, Georgia, for condemnation. Following repairs she was taken into the Navy and assigned to the Mediterranean Squadron under Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., whose mission was to stop the harassment of American shipping by the Dey of Algiers. Epervier joined with Guerriere, Constellation, and Ontario in capturing the 46-gun frigate Mashuda. Consequent to the signing of a treaty with the Dey of Algiers, Decatur chose Epervier, Lieutenant John T. Shubrick in command, to bear a copy of the treaty and some captured flags to the United States. She sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar on 14 July 1815 and was never heard from again, remaining today one of the fascinating mysteries in the annals of the sea. As of 2005, no other ship in the United States Navy has been named USS Epervier. Epervier
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