The first Hornet was a ten-gun sloop commissioned in 1775, and served in the American Revolutionary War. The first two ships in the new Continental Navy were Hornet and USS Wasp.
The second Hornet, also a ten-gun sloop, carried Marines to the shores of Tripoli. In a one-hour gun battle she silenced the citadel at Djerna[?] and landed the Marines thus deciding the war with the Barbary Pirates[?].
The fourth Hornet was a five gun schooner used as a dispatch vessel between 1813 and 1820.
The fifth Hornet, the first to be steam propelled, was an iron, side-wheeled steamer. She saw action during the Civil War, and later was ordered to duty in Cuban waters.
The sixth Hornet, a converted yacht, was a dispatch vessel in the Spanish-American War.
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