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USS ''Adams'' was a 28-gun (rated) sailing frigate of the United States Navy. She was laid down in 1797 at New York City by John Jackson and William Sheffield and launched on 8 June 1799. Capt. Richard Valentine Morris took command of the ship.〔 ==Quasi-War with France== The frigate departed New York in mid-September 1799 and headed for the West Indies to protect American shipping from attacks by French privateers, during the Quasi-War with France. She arrived at Saint Christopher on 10 October and soon began cruising nearby waters in search of French men of war and any prizes which had been captured by warships flying French colors. Later that month, she recaptured the brig ''Zylpha'' and assisted in taking an unidentified 4-gun French privateer and freeing an English brig and a schooner from Boston which that vessel of prey had seized. On 12 November, she again teamed with ''Insurgent'' in recapturing the 14-gun English brig ''Margaret''. On the 15th, they took the French privateer ''Le Onze Vendémiaire''. On the 20th, they cooperated in liberating the schooner ''Nancy'' which had struck her colors on the 18th. On 10 January 1800, ''Adams'' and made the French schooner ''La Fougeuse'' their prize and, late in the month, ''Adams'' recaptured the schooner ''Alphia''. Two more French schooners, ''L'Heureuse Rencontre'' and ''Isabella'' fell into her hands in February. The following month, she freed the sloop ''Nonpareil'' and she did the same for the schooner ''Priscilla'' in April. But ''Adams'' most successful month came in May when she recaptured an unidentified schooner and teamed up with ''Insurgent'' once more in freeing a British letter of marque. During the same month she also recaptured another schooner named ''Nancy'', one called ''Grinder'', and an unidentified brig while capturing the brig ''Dove'' and the schooner ''Renommee''. In need of repairs, ''Adams'' returned to New York in July 1800, but early in the fall headed back to the Caribbean under the command of Capt. Thomas Robinson. However, on this cruise she did not have the success which she had enjoyed under Capt. Richard Morris but for the most part was limited to patrol and escort duty. She did manage to recapture the British schooner ''Grendin'', but the date of the action is unknown. On 23 March, the Secretary of the Navy ordered her home and she was laid up at New York.〔DANFS, USS ''Adams'', 3rd section〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Adams (1799)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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