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Captain Lewis Warrington and Others: Memorial of Lewis Warrington, Captain in the U. S. Navy (in Behalf of Himself and the Officers and Crew of the U. S. Sloop-of-War Peacock) (Classic Reprint)
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To the honorable William Stephens, judge of the district court of the United States for the Georgia district.
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Lewis Warrington was an officer in the United States Navy during the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812. He temporarily served as the Secretary of the Navy.
Background
Lewis Warrington was born at Williamsburg, Va. Warrington was the illegitimate son of Rachel Warrington and Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, who was stationed in Williamsburg during the winter of 1781-1782, following the battle of Yorktown.
Education
As a youth attended the College of William and Mary.
Career
On January 6, 1800, he was appointed midshipman. Soon thereafter he joined the Chesapeake and cruised in the West Indies during the last year of the naval war with France. Retained on the peace establishment of 1801, he participated in the war with the Barbary corsairs, 1802-07, serving on board the President, Vixen, and Enterprise. In 1805 he was promoted lieutenant. After commanding a gunboat at Norfolk, he was attached in 1809 to the Siren, under orders to proceed to Europe with dispatches. On his return home he was transferred to the Essex, which, after cruising off the American coast, also made a voyage to Europe with dispatches. His first duty in the War of 1812 was performed as first lieutenant of the Congress, one of the ships of the squadron of Commodore John Rodgers. Soon after his promotion to the rank of master commandant, July 1813, he took command of the sloop of war Peacock. Sailing from New York in March 1814, he encountered off Cape Canaveral, April 29, 1814, the British brig Epervier, and after a sharp action of three quarters of an hour forced her to surrender, with a loss ten times that of his own ship. In recognition of this notable victory, Congress presented him with a gold medal and the state of Virginia with a sword. He next made an extensive cruise in which he visited the Grand Banks and the coasts of Ireland, the Shetland and Faroe Islands, and Portugal, taking in all fourteen prizes. In his last cruise during the war he rounded the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Indian Ocean, capturing several large Indiamen, valuable prizes. Entering the Straits of Sunda, on June 30, 1815, he fell in with the East India Company's cruiser Nautilus, 14 guns, which he took after inflicting a loss of fifteen men, including the first lieutenant mortally wounded. Warrington's claim that he had not heard of the treaty of peace is disputed by the purser of the British vessel, who said that he spoke to him of the peace before the fight began. In 1816 Warrington commanded the Macedonian during a voyage to Cartagena and conveyed thither Christopher Hughes, delegated by the American government to effect the release of American citizens imprisoned by the Spanish. He commanded the Java, 1819-20, and the Guerriere, 1820-21, of the Mediterranean squadron. After a period of duty at the Norfolk navy yard he commanded the West India squadron which was employed in the suppression of piracy. In 1826-30 and again in 1840-42 he was one of the three commissioners of the navy board, an administrative body in Washington, D. C. , charged with the administration of the naval matériel. During the intervening decade he was commandant of the Norfolk navy yard. On the reorganization of the Navy Department in 1842 he became the chief of the bureau of yards and docks. In 1844 he was for a time secretary of the navy ad interim. In 1846 he was made chief of the bureau of ordnance, an office that he held until his death.