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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1801, and was at the time of his death, on September 4, 1804, a master commander. In 1803 he commanded the schooner " Nautilus,'' in Commodore Preble's squadron in the Mediterranean, and bore a distin-guished part in the several attacks on the Tripolitan gun-boats; himself leading one of the attacking di-visions and Decatur the other. He volunteered to take the ketch " Intrepid/' fitted up as a fire-ship, into the harbor of Tripoli, and with his brave comrades lost his life by its premature explosion.

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