From Wikipedia.
The Levant was completed on 22 April 1814 and was a 22-gun Cyrus-class 6th rate sloop with two 6-pdr. long guns and twenty 32-pdr. carronades. It was one of five British ships captured by the USS Constitution during the war. There 16 ships in the Cyrus-class.
The Levant and HMS Cyane were escorting two convoys when they were attacked by the Constitution on Feb. 20, 1815. They were heavily outgunned by the much longer range American guns but made a fight of it.
The Cyane surrendered first and a prize crew placed upon it and then the Constitution gave chase to the Levant and captured it as well. All three ships then headed for the Cape Verdi islands where they encountered a British squadron. The Levant ran aground and was recaptured. It was broken up in 1820.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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