her spars and rigging, on August 28 she found herself confronted by the British frigate Iris and sloop of war HMS General Monk. After a fierce action in heavy seas with Iris, the Trumbull was repeatedly raked by Monk. Now unmanageable, and more than a third of the crew wounded or dead, the Trumbull surrendered. Trumbull was towed into New York, where Murray recovered from his wounds and was once more exchanged. Murray commanded a letter-of-marque on a successful voyage to St. Thomas with a cargo of tobacco, fighting off a British privateer, and capturing another, before taking part in an expedition against the Bahamas, and capturing New Providence. He was then appointed First Lieutenant of the frigate under the command of John Barry, sailing on her final cruise across the Atlantic, to France, and then to the West Indies, before the war's end in early 1783. The Continental Navy was disbanded at the end of the war and Murray returned to private life. Murray was one of the few naval officers to be an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Quasi-War with France In 1794 the government, in response to attacks on American merchant shipping, passed the Naval Act, which authorised the building of six new frigates, and established the United States Navy. Murray received a commission as one of the first thirteen post-captains in the new Navy, and in August 1798 was assigned to command the corvette , with orders to protect American shipping in the Caribbean from French privateers. Such was his success that he was voted the Thanks of Congress, and was given command of the frigate , formerly a French ship which had been captured by Thomas Truxtun. Insurgent sailed from Hampton Roads on 14 August 1799, and cruised in European waters during the winter of 1799–1800. She captured the French ship Vendemaire, and recaptured the American ships Margaret, Angora, Commerce, and William and Mary. Insurgent returned to the United States in March 1800 via the West Indies. First Barbary War Murray was then appointed to the command of the frigate , and patrolled in the West Indies until early 1802, when he was appointed the commodore of a small squadron sent to blockade Tripoli. In Constellation, he relieved Commodore Richard Dale (with whom he has served aboard the Trumbull). Murray distributed his small force, so as not to allow a single Tripolitan