USS Intrepid

Sunk

Navy of Tripoli, then United States Navy

Type	Auxiliary
Guns	4 guns
War	First Barbary War

Service

to 1803	Mastico	Tripoli
from 1803	Intrepid Captured by Enterprise	USA

Tripolitan ketch Mastico, taken by Enterprise and Constitution in December 1803 and renamed. Disguised as a Maltese trader, she carried Decatur's boarding party into Tripoli harbour to burn Philadelphia in February 1804. Fitted out as a floating bomb, she blew up in the harbour mouth on the night of 4 September 1804, killing Richard Somers and her whole crew of thirteen.

Blowing Up of the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Somers in the Harbour of Tripoli on the night of 4th Sepr. 1804. This . . . shows her blowing up with Somers and her entire crew. Copy of engraving, ca. 1810. (OWI) NARA FILE #: 208-LU-25F-10 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 74 Photo: Service Depicted: Other Service, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

4 guns

Launched	1798
Length	60 ft (18 m)
Complement	70 officers and enlisted

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched as Mastico

1798

Renamed USS Intrepid

USA

23 December 1803 · Captured by Enterprise

Burning of the Philadelphia

Survived

16 February 1804

Stephen Decatur

Loss of the Intrepid

Sunk

4 September 1804

Richard Somers; blew up with all thirteen aboard