From: Dictionary of American Fighting Ships, Vol. A, 1991, Navy  

Department, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History  

Division, Washington, D.C.



ARIEL 



Sch:

t. 48;

s. 7.5 k.;

cpl. 13;

a. 1 gun



The third ARIEL-a schooner built in Baltimore by Dorgin and Bailey as 

Fourth of July-was purchased by the Navy in April 1831 and commissioned 

as Fourth of July on 19 May 1831, Lt. Ebenezar Farrand in command.



Renamed ARIEL on 9 June 1831, she served as a patrol vessel guarding a 

live oak forest growing on the gulf coast of Florida between Cape Sable 

and the Perdido River. That duty lasted from June 1831 to December 1832. 

She entered port at Norfolk Va., on 31 December 1832. Decommissioned 

there, she was sold on 3 January 1833.