USS Ariel (1777), a 16-gun
sloop-of-war, originally the
Royal Navy's HMS Ariel captured by the French in 1779, lent to the Americans in 1780, and returned to the French the next year.
USS Ariel (1831), was a schooner built in
Baltimore as Fourth of July. The US Navy commissioned her as USS Fourth of July in May 1831. She was renamed Ariel on 9 June. She was decommissioned on 31 December 1832 and sold on 3 January 1833.
USS Ariel (1862), schooner captured in the American Civil War and used by the Navy until 1865.
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