 United States | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rambler |
| Owner | Benjamin Rich[1] |
| Builder | Charles Turner, Medford, Massachusetts (S.Lapham's yard)[1] |
| Launched | 1812[1] |
| Fate | Sold 1813 |
| United States | |
| Name | USS Rattlesnake |
| Namesake | Rattlesnake |
| Operator | U.S.Navy |
| Acquired | 1813 by purchase |
| Captured | 22 June or 11 July 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tons burthen | 26824⁄94,[1] or 278 (bm) |
| Armament | 14 guns |
USS Rattlesnake was the brig Rambler built in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1812 that the United States Navy purchased in July 1813. Rattlesnake captured numerous British merchant vessels before HMS Leander captured her in mid-1814. The Royal Navy apparently purchased her at Nova Scotia, but there is no record of her subsequent career.
- ^ a b c d Brooks, Whitmore & Usher (1886), p. 366.