&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Spark_sail_plan.jpg) Sail plan of USS Spark
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Spark |
| Completed | 1813 |
| Acquired | 1814 |
| Commissioned | circa 20 May 1815 |
| Recommissioned | 1 July 1816 |
| Decommissioned | circa 1825 |
| Fate | sold 1826 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Brig |
| Displacement | 310 tons |
| Length | 103 ft (31 m) (between perpendiculars) |
| Beam | 25 ft 4 in (7.72 m) |
| Draft | 12 ft 8 in (3.86 m) |
| Propulsion | brig sail |
| Complement | 90 |
| Armament |
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USS Spark was a heavily armed brig in the services of the United States Navy, built for service in the War of 1812. However, she was completed too late for that war and was assigned, instead, to the Barbary Wars in the Mediterranean. After two voyages in support of that action, she was assigned to suppress pirates in the Caribbean, where she was successful in capturing a number of pirate ships and their crews.