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| Career |
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| Launched: | 1796 |
| Commissioned: | 1815 |
| Decommissioned: | 1827? |
| Fate: | sold |
| General Characteristics |
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| Displacement: | 539 tons |
| Length: | 110 ft (34 m) |
| Beam: | 31.5 ft (9.6 m) |
| Depth: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Complement: | 180 officers and men |
| Armament: | 4 x 12 pounders (5 kg), 20 x 32 pounder (15 kg) carronades, 8 x 18 pounder (8 kg) carronades |
Cyane was a sailing frigate built in 1796 at Frinsbury , England, for the Royal Navy. She was captured with HMS Levant 20 February 1815 by Constitution, after a 40-minute night engagement off Madeira. With Constitution's second lieutenant Hoffman as prize master , she successfully escaped recapture by a pursuing British squadron 12 March and arrived in America 10 April. She was adjudicated by a prize court and purchased by the Navy and renamed USS Cyane.
Cyane cruised off the west coast of Africa from 1819-1820 and in the West Indies from 1820-1821 protecting the Liberian colony and suppressing piracy and the slave trade. She cruised in the Mediterranean 1824-1825, and on the Brazil Station 1826-1827. Laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard, she sank in 1835 and was raised and broken up the following year.
See USS Cyane for other Navy ships of the same name.
