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Commodore Lewis Warrington (3 November 1782 – 12 October 1851) was a United States Navy officer who saw action during the First Barbary War and the War of 1812 and temporarily served as the secretary of the Navy.
Lewis Warrington was a naval hero of the War of 1812 who captured the British brig Epervier without losing a single member of his crew.
Captain Warrington returned home and received orders to duty at the Norfolk Navy Yard. In February 1825, he relieved David Porter as commander of the West Indian Squadron during the latter stages of the piracy suppression campaign and thereafter bore the title, Commodore.
His first duty in the War of 1812 was performed as first lieutenant of the Congress, one of the ships of the squadron of Commodore John Rodgers. Soon after his promotion to the rank of master commandant, July 1813, he took command of the sloop of war Peacock.
In February 1825, he relieved David Porter as commander of the West Indian Squadron during the latter stages of the piracy suppression campaign and thereafter bore the title, commodore. In 1826, Warrington returned home and served ashore for the remainder of his career.
- Williamsburg, Virginia
- Margaret Carey Warrington
- Virginia
- November 3, 1782
commodore warrington. Thomas Wyatt Lewis Warrington is the descendant of an old and respectable family in Williamsburgh, near Norfolk, in Virginia, where he was born on the 3d day of November, 1782.
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First as Commodore Lewis Warrington noted in 1826, "the Bar" and depth of Pensacola Bay continued to limit large naval vessels from access to the port. Second, as each commandant attested to Washington DC, Pensacola simply lacked an adequate supply of skilled mechanics and labor.
