USS Syren (1803)

USS Syren (fourth from the right) during the bombardment of Tripoli in 1804.
History
United States
Name	USS Syren
Builder	Nathaniel Hutton
Cost	$32,522
Laid down	1803
Launched	6 August 1803
Commissioned	1 September 1803
Renamed	Siren, 1809
Fate	Captured at sea, 12 July 1814
United Kingdom
Name	Siren
Acquired	12 July 1814 by capture
Commissioned	Not commissioned
Fate	Not listed after 1815
General characteristics [1]
Type	Brig
Displacement	240 long tons (244 t)
Tons burthen	298 (bm)
Length	94 ft 3+1⁄2 in (28.7 m) (overall); c,75 ft 0 in (22.9 m)
Beam	27 ft 0 in (8.23 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Propulsion	Sail
Complement	120 officers and enlisted
Armament	16 × 24-pounder carronades

USS Syren (later Siren) was a brig of the United States Navy built at Philadelphia in 1803. She served during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812 until the Royal Navy captured her in 1814. The British never commissioned her but apparently used her for a year or so as a lazaretto, or a prison vessel. She then disappears from records.