Qualla: USS Enterprise (1799) https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/e/c/j/uss-enterprise-1799-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: USS Enterprise (1799) https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799 USS Enterprise (1799): Introduction https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799/ Photo credit Irwin John David Bevan, Public domain. When the Tripolitan corsair Tripoli limped back into port after meeting USS Enterprise on 1 August 1801, its captain had lost twenty men killed, thirty wounded, and every scrap of dignity a commander could lose. The Bey of Tripoli ordered him mounted on a donkey and paraded through the streets for public humiliation, then administered five hundred blows with a stick. Enterprise, meanwhile, had not suffered a single casualty. Built in Baltimore in 1799 for the newborn United States Navy, Enterprise would spend twenty-four years fighting in three wars across two oceans, earning the nickname "Lucky Enterprise" and setting the standard for every ship that would carry the name after her.

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/e/c/j/uss-enterprise-1799-wp/decj-uss-enterprise-1799-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full USS Enterprise (1799): Privateers in the Caribbean https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799/ Photo credit Irwin John David Bevan, Public domain. Lieutenant John Shaw took Enterprise to sea on 17 December 1799, heading for the Caribbean during the Quasi-War with France. American merchant ships were being seized by French privateers, and Enterprise's job was to stop them. She did. In her first cruise she recaptured two Amer...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/e/c/j/uss-enterprise-1799-wp/decj-uss-enterprise-1799-privateers-in-the-caribbean.mp3 0:06 2 full USS Enterprise (1799): Three Strikes and a Donkey https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799/ Photo credit Irwin John David Bevan, Public domain. Sterrett sailed Enterprise to the Mediterranean for the First Barbary War, reaching Gibraltar in late June 1801. Her encounter with the corsair Tripoli on 1 August became one of the most celebrated single-ship actions in early American naval history. The battle lasted three hours...

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]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/e/c/j/uss-enterprise-1799-wp/decj-uss-enterprise-1799-three-strikes-and-a-donkey.mp3 0:06 3 full USS Enterprise (1799): The Burning of Philadelphia https://qualla.com/uss-enterprise-1799/ Photo credit Irwin John David Bevan, Public domain. Enterprise spent 1802 and 1803 on convoy and patrol duty in the Mediterranean, punctuated by tragedy -- a supply barge capsized at Leghorn in October 1802, drowning a midshipman and three crewmen. When the war with Tripoli resumed, she returned to combat. In November 1803, Lieute...

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