From Wikipedia.
The ship was bought by the U.S. Navy in 1806 and ran aground 9 January 1811 and sank.
It was 70 feet long and mounted 12 X 6-pdr cannons.
The Navy bought the Baltimore-built schooner Ranger in New Orleans in December 1806. It was renamed the Revenge and commissioned.
In 1807, it was ordered to the Atlantic Ocean and sailed under Lt. Jacob Jones. It joined Commodore John Rodgers' New York Flotilla which assembled shortly after the USS Chesapeake-HMS Leopard Affair. With the passage of Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act on 22 December 1807, the flotilla established a blockade of the U.S, coast to prevent foreign commerce.
--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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