# USS Java (1815)

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For the frigate laid down in 1863, see [Java-class frigate (1863)](/source/Java-class_frigate_(1863))

**USS *Java*** was a wooden-hulled, sailing [frigate](/source/Frigate) in the [United States Navy](/source/United_States_Navy), bearing 44 guns.  She was named for the American victory over [HMS *Java*](/source/HMS_Java_(1811)) off the coast of Brazil on 29 December 1812, captured by the *Constitution* under the command of Captain [William Bainbridge](/source/William_Bainbridge). HMS *Java* had suffered severe damage during the engagement and being far from home port was ordered burned.[2][3]

*Java* was built at [Baltimore, Maryland](/source/Baltimore,_Maryland) in 1814 and 1815 by [Flannigan & Parsons](/source/Flannigan_%26_Parsons).[citation needed] Not completed until after the end of the [War of 1812](/source/War_of_1812), she was launched on 1 August 1814.[4] *Java*, Captain [Oliver Hazard Perry](/source/Oliver_Hazard_Perry) in command, got underway from Baltimore 5 August 1815, picked up spare rigging at [Hampton Roads](/source/Hampton_Roads) and [New York](/source/New_York_City), and sailed to [Newport, Rhode Island](/source/Newport,_Rhode_Island), to fill out her crew. Ordered to the [Mediterranean](/source/Mediterranean) to serve in the [Second Barbary War](/source/Second_Barbary_War), the new frigate departed from Newport 22 January 1816 in the face of a bitter gale. At sea one of her masts snapped with ten men upon the yards, killing five.

*Java* was off [Algiers](/source/Algiers) in April where Perry went ashore under a flag of truce and persuaded the [Dey of Algiers](/source/Dey_of_Algiers) to honor the treaty which he had signed the previous summer but had been ignoring. Next she sailed for [Tripoli](/source/Tripoli,_Libya) with [USS *Constellation*](/source/USS_Constellation_(1797)), [USS *Ontario*](/source/USS_Ontario_(1813)), and [USS *Erie*](/source/USS_Erie_(1813)) to show the strength and resolve of the United States. Then, after a cruise in the Mediterranean stopping at [Syracuse](/source/Syracuse,_Italy), [Messina](/source/Messina), [Palermo](/source/Palermo), [Tunis](/source/Tunis), [Gibraltar](/source/Gibraltar) and [Naples](/source/Naples), the frigate returned to Newport early in 1817 and was laid up at [Boston, Massachusetts](/source/Boston,_Massachusetts).

*Java* returned to active service in 1827 under Captain [William M. Crane](/source/William_M._Crane) for a second deployment in the Mediterranean. There she protected American citizens and commerce and performed diplomatic duties. Toward the end of the cruise she served as [flagship](/source/Flagship) of Commodore [James Biddle](/source/James_Biddle_(commodore)).

After returning to the United States in 1831, *Java* became [receiving ship](/source/Receiving_ship) at Norfolk, where she was broken up in 1842.

## References

1. Printed by order of the Secretary of the Navy, conformably to a resolution of the honorable Senate of the United States (1825). *Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, including Officers of the Marine Corps, &c. for the Year 1825*. Way & Gideon.

1. [Harris, 1837](#Harris) pp.149–150

1. [U.S.Navy, DANFS, Java](#Java,_USN) prgh.1

1. "American Papers". No. 9322. 22 September 1914. p. 2.

## Bibliography

- Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell (1910). [*Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, famous American Naval hero, Victor of the Battle of Lake Erie, his life and achievements*](https://archive.org/stream/commodoreoliver00mack#page/n7/mode/2up). D.M. MacLellan Book Company, New York, NY/Akron, OH. p. 436.
- Mills, James Cooke (1913). [*Oliver Hazard Perry and the battle of Lake Erie*](https://books.google.com/books?id=Nrd2AAAAMAAJ). John Phelps, Detroit. p. 284. ISBN 9781976346385.
- Harris, Gardner W. (1837). [*The life and services of Commodore William Bainbridge, United States Navy*](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7CxCAAAAIAAJ). New York: Carey Lea & Blanchard. pp. [254](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7CxCAAAAIAAJ/page/n257). ISBN 0-945726-58-9. [Url2](https://archive.org/stream/lifeandservices01harrgoog#page/n14/mode/2up)
- Cooper, James Fenimore (1856). *History of the navy of the United States of America*. Stringer & Townsend, New York. p. 508. [OCLC 197401914](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/197401914) [Url](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_WK3mWOlYYNsC)
- Leiner, Frederic C. (2007). *The End of Barbary Terror, America's 1815 War against the Pirates of North Africa*. Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-532540-9. [Url](http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Early19thCentury/?view=usa&ci=9780195325409)
- Niles, Milton & John Milton & John (1970). *The Life of Oliver Hazard Perry*. Applewood Books, Bedford, Mass. p. 380. ISBN 978-1-4290-2157-9. [Url](https://books.google.com/books?id=rPsxhqC9ud4C)
- James, William & Chamier, Frederick (1837). *The naval history of Great Britain: from the declaration of war by France in 1793 to the accession of George IV*. Richard Bentley, London. p. 568. [Url](https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.92798)
- Dept U.S.Navy. ["Java"](https://web.archive.org/web/20040225075846/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/j2/java.htm). *Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships*. DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY – NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER. Archived from [the original](http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/j2/java.htm) on February 25, 2004. Retrieved 23 October 2011.

## External links

- [3 decks – Naval History. U.S. Java](http://3decks.pbworks.com/w/page/916110/USF%20Java%20(1815))

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