USS Warren ( 1799 ) The third USS " Warren " was a sloop - of - war that served in the United States Navy from 1799 to 1801 . Construction and commissioning . " Warren " was a copper - sheathed sloop - of - war contracted for at Newburyport , Massachusetts , but actually built by an association of shipbuilder s at Salisbury , Massachusetts . On 6 July 1799 , while she was still under construction , Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddert ordered Master Commandant Timothy Newman to take command of " Warren " . The ship was fitted out there , into the winter of 1799 , and probably was commissioned in either November or December of 1799 . Voyage to the Caribbean . Assigned the duty of protecting American commerce in Cuban waters against the possible incursions of French warship s or privateer s during the " Quasi War " with France , " Warren " set sail for Havana , Cuba , on 31 December 1799 , escorting the schooner " Trio " . " Trio " was laden with stores for the American men - of - war on the Havana station . As the ships stood out of Nantasket Roads , near Boston , Massachusetts , Sailing Master Joseph Whitmore , in " Warren " , penned fervently in his journal , " God send us safe to our orders End in our Lawfull ( sic ) Ways in supporting our Independence . " " Trio " was separated from " Warren " about 4 January 1800 or 5 January 1800 , and " Warren " proceeded on independently . The passage proved uneventful until the 17 January 1800 , when six men came to Master Commandant Newman ' s cabin door at 18 : 30 hours , swearing that " they would not do Duty and . . . would go aboard the first British Man - of - War they could see . " According to Whitmore ' s journal , one of the men wielded the cook ' s hatchet and all apparently " used other Mutenous ( sic ) language . " As a reward for their behavior , the six were promptly clapped in irons , to stand trial later . At 13 : 00 hours on 19 January 1800 , " Warren " spoke with the sloop " Mary " , 18 days out of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and bound for Cuba . " Mary " needed assistance , and " Warren " provided her with rigging and the ship ' s foretopmast stay sail . Three hours later , " Warren " met the schooner " Lucy " , 25 days out of Providence , Rhode Island , and took her into the convoy . " Warren " later passed a hawser to " Mary " and took her in tow . The three ships remained in company for five days before " Warren " lost sight of the two merchantnmen . Caribbean operations . " Warren " reached Havana early in the afternoon of 29 January 1800 . Over ensuing days , she supplied the brig USS " Norfolk " and assisted the brig " Fanny " , of Salem , Massachusetts , on 11 February 1800 . On the morning of 16 February 1800 , " Warren " got underway in company with " Norfolk " to escort a convoy of 19 merchantmen out of the coastal waters off Havana . " Warren " remained at sea until 8 March 1800 , when she dropped anchor at Matanzas , Cuba , for upkeep and to take on fresh water . She returned to patrol duties off the coast of Cuba at sunrise on 13 March 1800 . After a week at sea , " Warren " returned to Havana on 20 February 1800 and waited for a fleet of merchantmen to emerge from the harbor and form a convoy . That evening , a dozen ships sailed , and " Warren " joined them as they emerged from the harbor and gave them routing instructions as they headed for the United States . " Warren " remained at sea , on patrol , for another week thereafter , and returned to Havana on 28 February 1800 . She stood out to sea again on the morning of 2 April 1800 and proceeded to Matanza where she arrived on 5 April 1800 . " Warren " joined man - of - war USS " Ganges " and a convoy of 22 merchantmen on 21 April 1800 and sailed with them for a time before returning to Havana early in May 1800 . Sailing again on 5 May 1800 , " Warren " patrolled off the Cuban coast until she arrived at Havana on 23 May 1800 . Epidemic . " Warren " operated locally between Havana and Matanzas until mid - June 1800 and anchored in Havana harbor on the 15 June 1800 . On 24 June 1800 , the ship ' s doctor sent Quarter Gunner William Dogget ashore to the hospital at Havana , the man suffering from a fever — later determined to be yellow fever . Ominously , Dogget ' s case signified only the beginning of what would become a terrible ordeal for the sloop - of - war " Warren " . During " Warren " s stay at Havana , her crew — hitherto " in general , healthy , and robust " — began to have " evident symptoms of an increasing universal debility . " " Warren " , departing Havana in company with the frigate USS " General Greene " and 12 merchantmen , sailed for Veracruz , Mexico , on 26 June 1800 . Gunner Dogget , convalescent in the hospital at Havana , was spared seeing the agony of many of his shipmates . For the remainder of June 1800 , an average of 15 men per day were incapacitated for performing ship ' s work . The first fatality occurred shortly before dawn on 30 June 1800 , when young Midshipman Jonathan Greenleaf died . Nineteen men , recorded Whitmore , who survived the yellow fever epidemic , were then down with " the fever . " Thirteen more , including the doctor ' s mate , died before " Warren " reached Veracruz on 13 July 1800 . " Warren " sent 20 men ashore there , but four died in the ensuing days . " Warren " ultimately departed Veracruz on 23 July 1800 , having had an average of 20 to 24 sick men ashore in the hospital and 25 on board unfit for duty . Whitmore noted on 25 July 1800 that two dozen men were sick but noted optimistically that there were " many mending . " " Warren " headed back to Havana . Two men died on 27 July 1800 , three on the 28 July 1800 , and one on 1 August 1800 . On 2 August 1800 at 10 : 00 hours , the captain ' s only son , John Newman , along on the voyage as a midshipman , died . " Warren " subsequently anchored at Havana on 15 August 1800 , dropping her hook at 11 : 00 hours . Four hours later , Master Commandant Newman succumbed to the illness that had decimated his crew and killed his only son , when he , too , died . His remains were accordingly sent ashore and interred at Havana . Lieutenant Joseph Strout then took command and , soon thereafter , took the ship northward , bound for the United States . Meanwhile , as " Warren " sailed homeward , Secretary of the Navy Stoddert ordered Captain James Barron to take command of the ship as soon as possible after she arrived , with expressed instructions to " relieve the sick ; recruit men to fill the deficiency ; cleanse , reprovision , rewater , and prepare her for another cruise with the most dispatch . " Stoddert later instructed Barron to provide " all the protection in your power to the vessels which sail under your convoy , and see that as many as may be practicable to their destined ports . " Later operations . " Warren " apparently arrived at Boston in the autumn of 1800 . She subsequently fitted out for another cruise and sailed for the West Indies , where she operated , on patrol and escort duties primarily off Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy , near Guadeloupe and Haiti , until the " Quasi - War " with France ended early in 1801 . Decommissioning and disposal . " Warren " returned to the United States to Boston in the spring of 1801 at Boston . Sold in Boston the 1 June 1801 for 19747 dollars .