- Built in South Carolina
- Protecting the South Carolina coast
- Dispositioning after end of threat
- See also
- References
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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1799}} | Ship name= Beaufort | Ship namesake= A city in far southern South Carolina, and the seat of government for Beaufort County, South Carolina | Ship owner= citizens of Beaufort, South Carolina | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship route= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder= citizens of Beaufort, South Carolina | Ship original cost= | Ship yard number= | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= date unknown | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship commissioned= beginning of the summer of 1799 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= prior to February 1802 | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= date unknown | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport= | Ship identification= | Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship honours= | Ship honors= | Ship captured= | Ship fate= sold circa February 1802 | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship class= | Ship type= row galley | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement= not known | Ship tons burthen= | Ship length= 52' 0" (keel) | Ship beam= 15' 0" | Ship height= | Ship draught= | Ship draft= | Ship depth= 5' 8" | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship ramps= | Ship ice class= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion= oars and (possibly) sail | Ship sail plan= | Ship speed= | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship test depth= | Ship boats= | Ship capacity= | Ship troops= | Ship complement= 28 sailors | Ship crew= | Ship time to activate= | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship armament= one 24-pounder gun, 5 or 6 howitzers | Ship armour= | Ship armor= | Ship aircraft= | Ship aircraft facilities= | Ship notes=
}} | USS Beaufort (1799) was a row galley constructed by the citizens of Beaufort, South Carolina, and presented to the United States Government to be used to protect the coast of South Carolina from possible attack by warships of France, which was undergoing political instability following the French Revolution. Beaufort carried a powerful 24-pounder gun and because it had oars it had the advantage of being able to be rowed to various advantageous firing positions in becalmed seas. Built in South CarolinaThe first U.S. Navy ship to be so named,Beaufort, a row galley constructed by the citizens of Beaufort, South Carolina, in 1799, was presented by them to the United States government and was placed in commission by the U.S. Navy around the beginning of the summer of that year, Capt. P. A. Cartwright in command. Protecting the South Carolina coastBeaufort's construction had been occasioned by the undeclared hostilities that broke out at sea between the United States and revolutionary France in 1798. Her duty was to protect the South Carolina coast, harbors, inlets, and waterways from invasions and raids. Since neither of the two countries ever seriously entertained thoughts of invading the other's territory, Beaufort spent her brief career in making uneventful patrols along the South Carolina coast. Dispositioning after end of threatShe was finally sold at public auction in Charleston, South Carolina, sometime around the beginning of February 1802. See also - United States Navy
- French Revolution
References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b4/beaufort-i.htm}}
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