USS Vixen (1803)-- Part 5: Service in First Barbary War

Service During the First Barbary War:

1803

3 August-- Left Baltimore

14 September--  Arrived off Gibraltar

7 October--  Arrived off Tripoli with the USS Philadelphia

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1804

18 July--  Closed on Tripolitan Coast with USS Argus, Constitution, Syren, Nautilus, Enterprise,  and Scourge.    Later in August, the USS John Adams and Intrepid joined.  Multiple bombardments of Tripoli were initiated  in the following weeks.

September to November--  Syracuse, Tripoli, Malta, Syracuse and Messina.

7 November--    Arrived at Port of Syracuse.  USS Essex, John Adams, Argus, Constitution and Congress  were there as well.

--Brock-Perry