  {|    |} uss guerriere was the first frigate built in the united states since 1801. the name came from a fast 38-gun british frigate captured and destroyed in a half-hour battle by  19 august 1812. this victory was one of the united states' first in the war of 1812. she was built at the philadelphia navy yard under the supervision of joseph and francis grice. she was launched on 20 june 1814 under the command of commodore john rodgers and attached to the delaware flotilla. she served in the united states navy during the second barbary war. ==second barbary war operations== after fitting out, she was transferred to the command of captain stephen decatur and became the flagship of the squadron assembled at new york. she sailed from new york on 20 may 1815 to lead the squadron in terminating piratical acts against american merchant commerce by algiers and other barbary states.waldo, 1821 p.248 on 17 june 1815, off the algerian coast, the frigate  drove the 44-gun frigate meshuda, the flagship of the algerian fleet, under the guns of decatur's flagship, guerriere. with two broadsides, the american frigate drove below all who were not killed or disabled on meshudas decks, where after, mesh
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