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The first '''Active''' — a brigantine-rigged packet built at Marsh-field, Mass., on the orders of the [[Continental Congress]] — was launched in July 1779. Under the command of Capt. Corbin Barnes, she made voyages to Bilbao, [[Spain]], in 1780 and to Nantes, [[France]], in 1781. On 23 March 1782, while sailing from [[Philadelphia]] to Havana, [[Cuba]], she encountered the [[British]] man-of-war [[HMS Proserpine]] and was captured. The British [[warship]] took her into Jamaica where she was condemned as a prize and sold.<ref>[http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/a2/active-i.htm Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]</ref>

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