Commanding Officers

Samuel Nicholson   22 July 1798–5 June 1799
   
Silas Talbot   5 June 1799–8 September 1801
   
Edward Preble   14 May 1803–28 October 1804
   
Stephen Decatur   28 October 1804–9 November 1804
   
John Rogers, Sr.   9 November 1804–30 May 1806
   
Hugh George Campbell   30 May 1806–8 December 1807
   
John Rogers, Sr.   20 February 1809–17 June 1810
   
Isaac Hull   17 June 1810–15 September 1812
   
William Bainbridge   15 September 1812 –18 July 1813
   
Charles Stewart   18 July 1813–16 July 181
   
Jacob Jones   1 April 1821–31 May 1824
   
Thomas MacDonough   31 May 1824–14 October 1825
   
Daniel Todd Patterson   14 October 1825–5 December 1825
     
George Campbell Read   23 January 1826–21 February 1826
 
Daniel Todd Patterson   21 February 1826–19 July 1828
 
Jesse Duncan Elliott   3 March 1835–18 August 1838
 
Daniel Turner   1 March 1839–8 November 1841
 
Foxhall Alexander Parker   15 July 1842–16 February 1843
 
John Percival   13 December 1843–5 October 1846
 
 
 
For Further Reading
 
Fowler, William M. Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783–1815. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
 
_____. Silas Talbot: Captain of Old Ironsides. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, 1995.
 
Long, David F. "Mad Jack:" The Biography of Captain John Percival, USN, 1779–1862. CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
 
_____. Ready to Hazard: A Biography of Commodore William Bainbridge, 1774–1833. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1981.
 
McKee, Christopher. A Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession: The Creation of the U.S. Naval Officers Corps, 1794–1815. Annapolis, Maryland: The Naval Institute Press, 1991.
 
Maloney, Linda M. The Captain from Connecticut: The Life and Naval Times of Isaac Hull. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.
 
Martin, Tyrone G. A Most Fortunate Ship. Annapolis, Maryland: The Naval Institute Press, 1997.