Navy gives name, rank, date of commission, and where stationed whether on a ship or on land.
Department of the Navy, Naval History and Heritage Command, Officers of the U.S. Wasp (sloop) - Captain Johnston Blakeley. United States (frigate) - Captain John Shaw. Torch (schooner) - Lieutenants Wolcott Chauncey, Bladen Dulaney, and William Elliott. Spitfire (schooner) - Lieutenants Alexander J. Spark (brig) - Lieutenants Thomas Gamble, Wm. Prometheus (brig) - Lieutenants Alexander S. Peacock (sloop) - Captain Lewis Warrington. Ontario (sloop) - Master Commandant Jesse D. Nonsuch (schooner) - Lieutenant William Laughton. Macedonian (frigate) - Captain Jacob Jones. John Adams (corvette) - Master Commandant Edw. Java (frigate) - Captain Oliver Hazard Perry. Independence - Captain William Bainbridge, Captain William Crane. Hornet (sloop) - Captain James Biddle. Guerriere (frigate) - Captain Stephen Decatur, Master Commandant William Lewis. Flambeau (brig) - Lieutenants William H. Rodgers, David Geisinger, Mervine Mix, Paul Zantzinger Firefly (brig) - Lieutenants George W. Epervier (Brig) - Master Commandant John Downes. Enterprise (brig) - Lieutenants Lawrence Kearny and James M'Gowan. Constitution (Old Ironsides) - Captain Isaac Hull. Constellation (frigate) - Captain Charles Gordon. Congress (frigate) - Captain Charles Morris. Chippewa (brig) - Lieutenants George C. Boxer (brig) - Lieutenants John Porter and Charles T. Alert (ship) - Lieutenants Walter Stewart and Joseph Wragg. 
Navy was 18 years old and only had 22 commissioned warships, while there where more than 80 British vessels off the American seaboard.
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