USS Intrepid (1798)
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The first USS Intrepid was a captured ketch in the United States Navy during the First Barbary War.
A copy of an engraving of the destruction of the fire ship Intrepid
Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli by Edward Moran (1897) Intrepid depicted in foreground
First Barbary War
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The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War and the Barbary Coast War, was a conflict during the Barbary Wars, in which the United States and Sweden fought against Tripolitania. Tripolitania had declared war against Sweden and the United States over disputes regarding tributary payments made by both states in exchange for a cessation of Tripolitatian commerce raiding at sea. United States President Thomas Jefferson refused to pay this tribute. Sweden had been at war with the Tripolitans since 1800. The First Barbary War was the first major American war fought outside the New World, and in the Arab world.
USS Enterprise fighting the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli by William Bainbridge Hoff, 1878
Captain William Bainbridge paying tribute to the Dey of Algiers, 1800
An artist's depiction of the Philadelphia aground off Tripoli, in October 1803
An 1897 painting of the burning of the USS Philadelphia