USS Syren (later Siren) was a brig in the United States Navy during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812.

 

Syren was built for the Navy in 1803 at Philadelphia by Nathaniel Hutton and launched on 6 August 1803.

 

The brig departed Philadelphia on 27 August 1803 and reached Gibraltar.Syren  captured varias embarcaciones and cruised in the Mediterranean in 1804 participated in the attacks on Tripoli in August and September 1804. Whit the U.SS Constitution

 

Syren continued to support the squadron's operation against Tripoli which forced the Pasha to accede to American demands

 

Little record has been found of the brig's service during the War of 1812, but we do know that she was captured at sea by the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Medway on 12 July 1814 after an 11-hour chase during which Siren jettisoned her guns, anchors, cables, boats, and spare spars in a valiant but futile effort to escape from the British vessel. As of 2005, no other ship has been named Syren.

 

The U.S.S. Syren measure : Length: 94 ft 3 1/2 in (28.7 m). Beam: 27 ft 9 in (8.5 m. Draft 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m). equipec whit 16 24-pder.carronades and 2 long 12-pdr and one crew of one twenty men between officials and sailors

 

The Model of  U.S.S."Syren". in scale 1:48 measure Length. 109.2 c.m.  x Wide 39.4 cm. x Height 85.6 cm.

 

All tyhje model are handicafted in fine wood from Peruvian Amazon, respecting the measures, that are in the copy of the original plan, que this find in the National Archives, published of Howard Chapelle.