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| USS Alfred |
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The Alfred was a man-of-war in the Continental Navy of the United States. She was built as Black Prince, named for Edward, the Black Prince, and served as Alfred.
Black Prince was built at Philadelphia in 1774. No record of her builder seems to have...
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| USS Andrew Doria |
USS Andrew Doria was purchased by the Continental Congress in October of 1775. The ship was originally named the Defiance, but was renamed Andrew Doria, after being fitted out as a fighting vessel.
The brigantine was named after a 15th century...
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| USS Macedonian |
The second USS Macedonian, a 36-gun frigate, was rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, beginning in 1832; and was launched and placed in service in 1836, Capt. Thomas ap Catesby...
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| USS Dolphin |
The first Dolphin was a cutter in the Continental Navy.
Dolphin was purchased in February 1777 at Dover, England, and outfitted for use in the Continental Navy at Nantes, France. She was placed under the command of Lieutenant Samuel Nicholson and...
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| USS Guerriere |
The second USS Guerriere was a frigate in the United States Navy. She was named for the victory of the frigate USS Constitution over HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812.
Guerriere was launched on 9 September 1865 in the Boston Navy Yard and...
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| USS Stromboli |
In 1846, the United States Navy purchased the brig Howard at Boston, Massachusetts to strengthen its forces for the Mexican-American War. Commissioned on March 18, 1847 as bomb brig USS Stromboli, named for the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian...
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| USS Merrimack |
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USS Merrimack (sometimes spelled without the "k") was a frigate of the United States Navy, best known as the hulk upon which CSS Virginia was built during the American Civil War and then took part in the Battle of Hampton Roads (often called "the...
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| USS Falmouth |
USS Falmouth was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the mid-1800s.
Falmouth was launched on 3 November 1827 by Boston Navy Yard, and declared ready for sea 19 January 1828, Commander C. W. Morgan in command.
Between 1828 and 1840,...
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| USS Sachem |
The first Sachem was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Revolutionary War.
The Continental brigantine Lexington, commanded by Captain John Barry, captured the sloop HMS Edward, a tender to British frigate HMS Liverpool, off...
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| USS Prometheus |
The first USS Prometheus was a brig in the United States Navy from 1814 to 1818.
Prometheus was built by William Seguin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; purchased in 1814 by the Navy from Messrs. Savage and Dryan, the original owners, as the brig Escape...
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| USS Plymouth |
USS Plymouth, a wooden-hulled screw sloop-of-war, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Plymouth's keel was laid down as Kenosha at the New York Navy Yard in 1867; completed in 1868; and commissioned...
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| USS Hudson |
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The first USS Hudson was a frigate in the United States Navy.
Hudson, formerly Liberator, was built in 1826 for the Greek government by Smith & Dimon of New York. When Greece was unable to pay for her, she was purchased by the Navy and commissioned...
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| USS Germantown |
USS Germantown was a sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
Germantown was launched at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 22 August 1846; sponsored by Miss Lavinia Fanning Watson; because of damaging ice, transferred 18 December to Norfolk Navy Yard for...
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| USS Lackawanna |
The first USS Lackawanna was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Lackawanna was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 9 August 1862; sponsored by Miss Imogen Page Cooper; and commissioned 8 January 1863,...
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| USS Hancock |
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The second Hancock was one of the first 13 frigates of the Continental Navy authorized by resolution of the Continental Congress of British North America, 13 December 1775. She was named for John Hancock.
Hancock was built at Newburyport,...
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| USS Revenge |
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The second USS Revenge was a cutter in the Continental Navy and later a privateer.
Revenge was purchased at Dunkirk, France, for Continental service in the spring or summer of 1777 by William Hodge, an agent of the American commissioners to France,...
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| USS Randolph |
The first USS Randolph was a 32-gun frigate in the Continental Navy named for Peyton Randolph.
Construction of the first Randolph was authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775. The frigate, designed by Joshua Humphreys, was launched...
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| USS Iroquois |
The first USS Iroquois was a sloop of war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Iroquois was launched by the New York Navy Yard on 12 April 1859 and commissioned 24 November 1859, Commander J. S. Palmer in command.
Iroquois got...
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| USS Vandalia |
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The second USS Vandalia was a screw sloop in the United States Navy. She was laid down at the Massachusetts Boston Navy Yard in 1872 and was commissioned there on 10 January 1876.
Vandalia was soon deployed with the European Squadron and spent most...
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| USS Intrepid |
The third USS Intrepid was a barque in the United States Navy.
Her keel was laid down by the Mare Island Navy Yard. She was launched on 8 October 1904 sponsored by Miss Helen de Young and commissioned on 16 August 1907 with Commander Edward E....
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| USS Severn |
The first USS Severn was a wooden screw sloop of war in commission in the United States Navy from 1869 to 1871. She was named for Severn River in Maryland.
Severn was laid down as Masholu in October 1864 by the New York Navy Yard, was launched on 22...
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| USS Washington |
The Washington was one of the 13 cutters of the Morris-Taney Class. These cutters were the backbone of the US Revenue Cutter Service for more than a decade. Samuel Humphreys designed these cutters for roles as diverse as fighting pirates, privateers...
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| USS Admittance |
USS Admittance was a brig in the United States Navy.
Little is known about Admittance. She was an American merchant brig operating along the California coast during the Mexican-American War. The United States sloop of war Portsmouth seized this...
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| USS Xarifa |
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USS Xarifa (SP-581) was a patrol boat in the United States Navy.
Xarifa was a wooden-hulled, seagoing, sailing yacht equipped with an auxiliary steam engine—was built in 1896 at Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, by John S. White & Co., Ltd. Apparently...
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| USS Chippewa |
The second USS Chippewa was a brig built in 1815 at Warren, Rhode Island, under the direction of Commodore Oliver Perry, and sent to New York City to be outfitted and manned. Chippewa sailed from Boston, Massachusetts, 3 July 1815, with Lieutenant...
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| USS Detroit |
USS Detroit, a United States Navy ship, named after the city of Detroit, Michigan, was a sloop-of-war named so from May 15 to August 10 in 1869. Before and after she was known as the first USS Canandaigua.
Detroit (1869)
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| USS Congress |
The fifth USS Congress was a screw sloop in the United States Navy.
Congress was launched by the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 17 July 1868, sponsored by Miss P. Drake, daughter of Senator Charles Drake of Missouri; and commissioned 4 March 1870,...
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| USS Mohican |
The second USS Mohican was a steam sloop of war in the United States Navy. She was named for the Mohican tribe.
Mohican was laid down by Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 4 September 1872, funded with the repair money allocated for the first...
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| USS Truxtun |
The first USS Truxtun was a brig in the United States Navy.
Truxtun was laid down in late December 1841 at Portsmouth, Virginia, by the Norfolk Navy Yard, launched on 16 April 1842; and commissioned on 18 February 1843, Lieutenant George P. Upshur...
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| USS Washington |
The sixth USS Washington was a revenue cutter in the United States Navy. She discovered Amistad after the slaves onboard had seized control of that schooner in an 1839 mutiny. (Contrary to the general assumption, this ship was not named for...
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| USS Contoocook |
USS Contoocook was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.
Contoocock was launched 3 December 1864 at Portsmouth Navy Yard and commissioned 14 March 1868, Captain G. B. Balch in command.
Her first cruise, as...
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| USS Rescue |
The first USS Rescue was a brig in service with the United States Navy.
The brigs Rescue and Advance, specially reinforced and fitted out for Arctic service, were offered on loan to the U.S. Government by Henry Grinnell in 1850 for use in tracing...
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| USS Pioneer |
The first USS Pioneer was most likely a barque in the United States Navy, although some reports classify her a frigate and others as a brig.
Pioneer was built in 1836 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Commanded by Josiah Tattnall, she carried General...
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| USS Black Douglas |
USS Black Douglas (IX-55/PYc-45) was a steel-hulled auxiliary schooner which saw service as a United States Navy patrol vessel during World War II.
Black Douglas was built in 1930 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. On 2 January 1942, the...
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| USS Benicia |
USS Benicia was a screw sloop in the United States Navy during the late 19th century. She was named for Benicia, California.
Benicia was launched 18 August 1868 by Portsmouth Navy Yard as Algoma; renamed Benicia 15 May 1869; and commissioned 1...
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| USS Vincennes |
USS Vincennes, a 703-ton Boston class sloop of war, was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York. Commissioned in August 1826, she sailed to the Pacific by way of Cape Horn and cruised extensively in that ocean until 1830. Her return voyage was...
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| USS Oriole |
The USS Oriole, a sloop-of-war, served the U.S. Navy at the commencement of the 20th century.
Transferred to the Maryland Naval Militia in 1895, Dale, a 15-gun sloop-of-war, was renamed Oriole 30 November 1904 before she was struck from the Navy...
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| USS Lanikai |
USS Lanikai, was a schooner-rigged diesel powered yacht commissioned into the United States Navy during both World War I and World War II, before being transferred to the Royal Australian Navy.
The ship was built as MY Hermes by W. F. Stone of...
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| USS Nantucket |
USS Nantucket (PG-23/IX-18) was originially named USS Ranger. She was the fourth ship of the name Ranger. She was an iron-hulled steam-powered vessel, with a full-rig auxiliary sail, was laid down in 1873; launched in 1876 by Harlan and...
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| USS Ino |
USS Ino (1861) was a clipper ship acquired by the Union Navy during the course of the American Civil War. She was capable of great speed and distance, and was a formidable warship with powerful guns.
Ino was a clipper ship, purchased at Boston,...
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| USS James L. Davis | USS J. L. Davis |
USS James L. Davis (1861) was a bark acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
James L. Davis (also...
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| USS Austin |
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The first USS Austin in the service of the United States Navy was acquired from the Texas Navy when Texas became a state in 1846. Towed to Pensacola in poor condition, she was a receiving ship there until she was run aground and broken up in 1848.
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| Morris-Taney class cutter |
The Morris-Taney class Revenue Cutters were 13 cutters built at New York City at the Webb and Allen shipyard between 1830 - 1833. These cutters were the backbone of the Service for more than a decade. Samuel Humphreys designed these cutters for...
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| USS Black Douglas |
Soon after the United States entered World War II, Black Douglas￢ﾀﾔa steel-hulled auxiliary schooner built in 1930 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works￢ﾀﾔwas acquired by the Navy from the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service on 2...
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| USS McCulloch |
Built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, USS McCulloch commissioned 12 December 1897 as a cruising cutter of the Revenue Cutter Service, Capt. D. B. Hogsdon, RCS, in command.
As the Spanish American War was about to commence, the new cutter was...
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| USS Worcester |
USS Worcester was a Contoocook-class bark-rigged screw steam sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
Built as Manitou of unseasoned white oak timbers, she was laid down in 1863 at Boston, Massachusetts, by the Boston Navy Yard and launched on 25...
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| USS Adams |
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USS Adams, a screw sloop of the Enterprise class, was the last sailing ship to see active duty in the United States Navy.
For more than 50 years, the hull of the original Adams lay bleaching and forgotten after being scuttled in September 1814 to...
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| USS Quinnebaug |
The first USS Quinnebaug was a screw sloop-of-war in the United States Navy.
Quinnebaug was built by the New York Navy Yard, launched on 31 March 1866; sponsored by Lt. Comdr. David B. Harmony; and commissioned on 19 July 1867, Comdr. Edward Barrett...
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| USS Illinois |
USS Illinois, a screw sloop-of-war of 2,354 tons displacement, was laid down at Portsmouth Navy Yard in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1864, but was never completed. She was broken up in 1872.
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| USS Preble |
USS Preble (1813), sometimes called Commodore Preble, was the first ship of the United States Navy named for Commodore Edward Preble. A sloop purchased on Lake Champlain in 1813, she was commissioned 6 August 1813, Lt. Charles Budd in command....
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| USS Providence |
The second Providence, a 28-gun frigate, built by Silvester Bowes at Providence, Rhode Island, by order of the Continental Congress, was launched in May 1776.
After being blockaded in the Providence River for more than a year, the new frigate, under...
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| USS Fly |
USS Fly was an eight gun sloop of war built into the Continental Navy. She was part of a squadron that was beaten back by the 20 gun HMS Glasgow.
Fly, one of the eight former merchant ships fitted out by the Naval Committee between November 1775 and...
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| USS Queen Charlotte |
Queen Charlotte, a ship-rigged sloop built at Malden (now Arnherstberg), Canada in 1807, for the Canadian Provincial Marine, was captured by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie 10 September 1813 and purchased by the U.S. Navy....
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| USS Warren |
USS Warren was one of the 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775. She was named for Joseph Warren on 6 June 1776. Warren was burned to prevent capture in the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition in 1779.
Built at Providence...
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| USS Washington |
USS Washington was a schooner acquired by the Continental Navy during the American Revolution and converted to an armed brigantine. She served for only a short period of time before being captured by the British.
The first ship to be named...
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| USS Washington |
USS Washington (1776 lateen-rigged galley) was a galley in the service of the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War. Washington was capable of propulsion by sail or by the paddling of oarsmen. During a battle with British...
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| USS Independence |
USS Independence (1776 sloop) was a sloop in the Continental Navy. Acting as a dispatch boat, she was sent to France on a diplomatic mission – carrying important dispatches. While there, John Paul Jones embarked on her, and she received additional...
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| USS Providence |
USS Providence, a gundalow, was built at Skenesboro, New York, on Lake Champlain by the Continental Army for Brigadier-General Benedict Arnold's fleet on Lake Champlain in 1776, during the American Revolutionary War.
Under the command of Captain...
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| USS Augusta |
USS Augusta was a brig purchased by the US Navy on 30 June 1799 at Norfolk, Virginia and fitted out at Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania by Naval Constructor Joshua Humphreys. She was placed in commission for service in the Quasi-War with France sometime...
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| USS Rattlesnake |
USS Rattlesnake was a brig built in Medford, Massachusetts as a privateer and purchased by the United States Navy in 1813. She sailed from Portsmouth, New Hampshire 10 January 1814, under the command of Master Commandant John O. Creighton, and...
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