High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Viper (1806) – commissioned as USS Ferret (1806) – was a brig serving the United States Navy during the early days of the republic. Viper was assigned to enforce the Embargo Act of 1807 along the U.S. East Coast. During the War of 1812, while cruising in the Caribbean, she was captured by the more heavily armed British warships. The first ship to be so named by the Navy, Viper -- originally the cutter Ferret designed by naval architect Josiah Fox and built at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, between 1806 and 1809—was commissioned under her old name on 18 April 1809, Lt. Christopher Gadsden, Jr., in command.

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