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Rob there really wasn't much of a US navy during the 18th century. At the very end of it, during the AWI or you would say Colonial Rebellion, the indiidual colonies commissioned there own naval...

I am pretty sure the 28 gun Meshuda was a schooner not a xebec. It was the captured American merchant Betsy.

In 1784 corsairs attacked the Betsy, a 300 ton brig schooner that had sailed from...