The third Revenge was a schooner in the United States Navy during the years preceding the War of 1812.

Early service

The Navy purchased the Baltimore-built schooner Ranger at New Orleans in December 1806. She was renamed and commissioned as Revenge. In 1807 she was ordered to the Atlantic coast under the command of Lt. Jacob Jones, joining Commodore John Rodgers' New York Flotilla, which assembled shortly after the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to protect shipping in the vicinity of the Hampton Roads. With the passage of Thomas Jefferson's Embargo Act on 22 December 1807, the flotilla established a blockade of the US coast to prevent foreign commerce.

Later service

In 1809, Lt. Oliver Hazard Perry relieved Jones in command of Revenge. The records maintained by the Department of the Navy consider her to have been abandoned. They had not, as of that date, been able to recover any artifact establishing the identity of the discovered vessel.

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