USS Saratoga (1842)


Ivory Coast Expedition

  • Battle of Little Bereby

Mexican-American War

  • Mosquito Fleet Campaign

Opening of Japan

  • Bombardment of Edo

Reform War

  • Battle of Anton Lizardo

African Slave Trade Patrol

  • Capture of the Nightingale

American Civil War

  • Blockade of the South

USS Saratoga, a sloop-of-war, was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War. Her keel was laid down in the summer of 1841 by the Portsmouth Navy Yard. She was launched on 26 July 1842 and commissioned on 4 January 1843 with Commander Josiah Tattnall in command.