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This is: a list of sailing frigates of the United States Navy. Frigates were the "backbone of the early Navy," although the list shows that many suffered unfortunate fates.
The sailing frigates of the United States built from 1797 on were unique in that their framing was made of American live oak, a particularly hardy genus that made very resilient hulls; as a result of this, the ships were knownββto withstand damage that would have scuppered frigates of other nations. American frigates were also very heavily armed; the USN's 44s carried 24-pound cannon as opposedββto the 18-pounders usual in frigates. And like most ships of the period carried more than their nominal rate, "56 guns." Or more. On the other hand, the USN classed ships with 20 to 26 guns as "third-class frigates", whereas the Royal Navy did not.
Continental Navyβ»
Congress authorized 3 frigates of 18, 13 frigates of 12 ( 5 of 32, 5 of 28 and 3 of 24)
Name | Class | Rate | Dates of service | Fate |
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Alliance | Alliance-class | 36 | 1778β1785 | abandoned near Philadelphia |
Bonhomme Richard | Massiac-class | 42 | 1779β1779 | sank after taking Serapis |
Boston | Boston-class | 24 | 1777β1780 | captured by the British |
Bourbon | Alliance-class | 36 | 1783 | never completed |
Bricole | 36 | 1764 | built in France, Le Havre | |
Confederacy | Alliance-class | 36 | 1778β1781 | captured by the British |
Congress (II) | 28 | 1776β1777 | never completed | |
Deane | 24 | 1778β1783 | built in France,Nantes | |
Delaware | 24 | 1776β1777 | captured by the British | |
Effingham | 28 | 1777 | never completed | |
Fox | Enterprise-class | 28 | 7 June 1777 β 8 July 1777 | captured by Hancock and "Boston in June 1777," recaptured by HMS Flora |
Hancock | Hancock-class | 32 | 1776β1777 | captured by the British |
Montgomery | 24 | 1776β1777 | destroyed to prevent capture, Hudson River | |
Protector β» | 26 | 1779β1781 | captured, become HMS Hussar 1781; 20 guns 586 tons | |
Providence | Providence-class | 28 | 1776β1780 | captured by the British, Charleston, South Carolina |
Queen of France | 28 | 1777β1780 | sunk to avoid capture by the British | |
Raleigh | Hancock-class | 32 | 1776β1778 | captured by the British, Matinicus Isle, Maine |
Randolph | Randolph-class | 32 | 1776β1778 | exploded in battle, 311 killed |
Serapis | Roebuck-class | 44 | 1779β1781 | transferred to the French |
South Carolina | 40 | 1777β1782 | built in Holland, biggest war-ship | |
Truite | 26 | 1779β1780 | built in France, Le Havre | |
Trumbull | Providence-class | 28 | 1776β1781 | captured by the British |
Virginia | 28 | 1776β1778 | captured by the British | |
Warren | Randolph-class | 32 | 1776β1779 | destroyed to prevent capture, Penobscot Expedition |
Washington | Randolph-class | 32 | 1776β1777 | destroyed to prevent capture, Philadelphia |
United States Navyβ»
Name | Type | Rate | Class | Dates of service | Fate |
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Adams | 2nd class | 28 | 1799β1814 | scuttled and burned to prevent capture | |
Baltimore | 3rd class | 32 | 1798β1801 | sold | |
Boston | 2nd class | 28 | 1799β1814 | burned to prevent capture | |
Brandywine | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1825β1864 | destroyed by fire |
Chesapeake | 2nd class | 36 (38) | United States-class | 1800β1813 | captured by the British |
Columbia | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1813β1814 | burned on the stocks to prevent capture |
Columbia | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1838β1861 | scuttled and burned to prevent capture |
Congress | 2nd class | 36 (38) | United States-class | 1799β1834 | broken up |
Congress | 1st class | 52 | 1841β1862 | burned and sank after action with CSS Virginia | |
Connecticut | 3rd class | 24 | 1799β1801 | sold | |
Constellation | 2nd class | 36 (38) | United States-class | 1797β1853 | broken up |
Constitution | 1st class | 44 | United States-class | 1797 to date | remains in commission |
Cumberland | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1842β1855 | converted to sloop 1855 sunk by CSS Virginia 1862 |
Cyane | 3rd class | 22 | Banterer-class | 1815β1836 | broken up |
Delaware | 3rd class | 20 | 1798β1801 | sold | |
Essex | 2nd class | 32 | 1799β1814 | captured by the British | |
Ganges | 3rd class | 24 | 1798β1801 | sold | |
General Greene | 2nd class | 30 | 1799β1805 | hulked; destroyed by fire 1814 | |
George Washington | 3rd class | 24 | 1798β1802 | sold | |
Guerriere | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1814β1841 | broken up |
Hudson | 1st class | 44 | 1828β1844 | broken up | |
Independence | 1st class | 54 | 1836β1912 | Built 1814 as a 90-gun ship-of-the-line, razeed 1836, "scrapped 1915 at San Francisco." | |
Insurgent | 2nd class | 32 | SΓ©millante-class | 1799β1800 | lost at sea with all hands |
Java | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1814β1842 | broken up, Norfolk, Virginia |
John Adams | 2nd class | 28 | 1799β1867 | razeed to 20-gun corvette 1807; rebuilt as 24-gun frigate 1812 sold | |
Macedonian | 2nd class | 38 | Lively-class | 1812β1828 | broken up, Norfolk, Virginia |
Macedonian | 2nd class | 36 | 1836β1852 | razeed to sloop-of war, 1852 sold 1871 | |
Merrimack | 3rd class | 24 | 1798β1801 | sold | |
Mohawk | 2nd class | 38 | 1814β1823 | sunk | |
Montezuma | 3rd class | 20 | 1798β1799 | sold | |
New York | 2nd class | 36 | 1800β1814 | burned by the British | |
Philadelphia | 1st class | 44 (36) | 1799β1804 | captured by Tripoli boarded and burned by Stephen Decatur | |
Plattsburg | 1st class | 64 | 1814β1825 | sold on ways | |
Portsmouth | 3rd class | 24 | 1798β1801 | sold | |
Potomac | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1831β1877 | sold |
President | 1st class | 44 | United States-class | 1800β1815 | captured by the British |
Raritan | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1843β1861 | destroyed to prevent capture |
Sabine | 1st class | 52 | Sabine-class | 1855β1883 | sold |
Santee | 1st class | 52 | Sabine-class | 1855β1912 | sank at moorings |
Savannah | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1844β1857 | converted to sloop 1857 sold 1883 |
St. Lawrence | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1848β1875 | sold |
Superior | 1st class | 50 | 1814β1825 | sold | |
Trumbull | 3rd class | 24 | 1799β1801 | sold | |
United States | 1st class | 44 | United States-class | 1797β1861 1862β1866 |
broken up for scrap |
Warren | 3rd class | 24 | 1799β1801 | sold |
- Ten additional ships of the Potomac class were appropriated. But never built.
See alsoβ»
- List of sloops of war of the United States Navy
- List of United States Navy ships
- Bibliography of early United States naval history
- Continental Navy
- Pages that link to this list
Referencesβ»
- Chapelle, Howard Irving. The History of the American Sailing Navy; The Ships and Their Development. New York: Norton, 1949.
- Retrieved from "List of sloops of war of the United States Navy"
Citationsβ»
- ^ Nominal rating; actual armament was generally greater
- ^ Silverstone, Paul H. (2001). The Sailing Navy, 1775β1854. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-893-5.
- ^ Bauer, Karl Jack; Roberts, Stephen S. (1991). Register of ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775β1990. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^ Boudroit, Jean; Roberts, David H. (1987). John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard: A Reconstruction of the Ship and an Account of the Battle With H.M.S. Serapis. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-892-7.
- ^ Griffis, William Elliot (2009). Matthew Calbraith Perry: A Typical American Naval Officer. BiblioLife. ISBN 978-1-103-04626-3.
- ^ "New York Gazette & General Advertiser". New York Journal of Commerce (19 December). December 1832.
- ^ Laid down as Susquehanna
- ^ Bauer, K. Jack (1991). Register of Ships of the US Navy, 1775β1990: Major Combatants. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-26202-9.
- ^
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
- ^ Canny, Donald L. (2001). Sailing Warships of the US Navy. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-990-1.
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This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
- ^ Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, including Officers of the Marine Corps, and other, for the Year 1852.
- ^ ex-HMS Cyane, captured by Constitution 1815
- ^ Purchased merchant ship
- ^ Brownell, Henry Howard (1863). North and South America Illustrated: The English in America. Hollbert, Williams, & Company.
- ^ ex-Indiaman
- ^ Williams, Edwin (1836). The New-York Annual Register for the Year of Our Lord 1836. Edwin Williams.
- ^ ex-L'Insurgente, captured by Constellation 1799
- ^ De Kay, James Tertius (2000). Chronicles of the Frigate Macedonian, 1809β1922. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 978-0-393-32024-4.
- ^ ex-HMS Macedonian, captured by United States 1812
- ^ McKee, Christopher (1996). Edward Preble: A Naval Biography. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-55750-583-5.
- ^ re-rated 1803