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USS Philadelphia (1799) Articles and Information - Current Article USS Philadelphia (1799) Image:USS_Philly_1799-250px.jpg Career Laid down: 14 November 1798 Launched: 28 November 1799...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Articles and Information - Current Article Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Alternate meanings: Philadelphia (disambiguation) Philadelphia is its rise.
Philadelphia was laid down about 14 November 1798, launched...

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USS Philadelphia (1799) Burning of the Philadelphia, 1804 She cruised off Tripoli until reef off Tripoli harbor.
USS Boston (1799) The third USS Boston, was a 28-gun frigate, built by public subscription in Boston under the Act of 1...
Battle of Novi (1799) The battle of Novi was a battle in the French under General Moreau.

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USS Enterprise (1799) The third USS Enterprise, a schooner, was built by Henry Spencer at Baltimore, Maryland, in...
USS Shaw (DD-373) The second USS Shaw (DD-373) was launched at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard side-by-side with a sister ship, the USS Cassin on Navy Day, 1935.
USS Shaw (DD-68) The first USS Shaw (DD-68) was commissioned on 9 April 1917 and served...

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She was born on 31 March 1799 [or 1800] in Philadelphia, the daughter of William Lardner and Ann Shepard, of Philadelphia.
First planned in 1799, the Philadelphia Naval Asylum was built in 1833.
While enroute to her new station, under the command of Commander Garrett Jesse Pendergast, a Philadelphia sailor, USS BOSTON was wrecked on Eleuthera Island, in the Bahamas, during a squall in November 1846.

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Â USS Philadelphia (1799) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

The second USS Philadelphia of the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy was a 28 gun (additional info and facts about sailing frigate) sailing frigate.
Originally named City of Philadelphia, she was built at (additional info and facts about Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the United States Government by the citizens of the city in 1798-1799.
See (additional info and facts about USS Philadelphia) USS Philadelphia for other Navy ships of the same name.

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USS Philadelphia (1776, 1799, C 4, CL 41, SSN 690)
USS Enterprise (1775, 1776, 1799, 1831, CV 6, CVN 65)
USS Seawolf (SS 197, SSN 575, SSN 21)

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The second USS Philadelphia of the United States Navy was a 28 gun sailing frigate.
Philadelphia was boarded 16 February 1804 and burned where she lay in Tripoli Harbor with her guns pointed outward, by a volunteer party of officers and men under Lt. Stephen Decatur, Jr.

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The USS Chesapeake was built at Gosport Navy Yard, now Norfolk Naval Shipyard, between December 1798 and December 1799.
Sister ships and locations where they were built were USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides"), Boston; USS President, New York City; USS United States, Philadelphia; USS Congress, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and USS Constellation, Baltimore.
Congressional authorization to build the first frigates, including the USS Chesapeake, after the American Revolution was on March 29 1794.

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1804 Â– September 6 Â– Captain Bainbridge, skipper of the scuttled USS Philadelphia, and shipÂ’s doctor Dr. Cowdery and a detachment of prisoners find 13 bodies washed ashore Tripoli harbor, three identified as officers, which are buried 100 yards south of the harbor near the castle.
1799 Â– June 22 Â– RichardÂ’s brother Constant dies in Europe in boating accident.
1799 Â– January 20 - Richard Somers given commission as Lieutenant.

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Â USS Philadelphia (1799)

The second USS Philadelphia of the United States Navy was a 28-gun sailing frigate.
Originally named City of Philadelphia, she was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the United States Government by the citizens of the city in 1798-1799.
See USS Philadelphia for other Navy ships of the same name.

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The USS Chesapeake was built at Gosport Navy Yard, now Norfolk Naval Shipyard, between December 1798 and December 1799.
Sister ships and locations where they were built were USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides"), Boston; USS President, New York City; USS United States, Philadelphia; USS Congress, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; and USS Constellation, Baltimore.
The CHESAPEAKE was taken into the Royal Navy and, in 1820 broken up at Portsmouth, England, her timbers being used to build a flour mill at Wickham.

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And the current USS Philadelphia, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, has just returned to the United States after completing a seven-month deployment.
Next month, we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Navy Lieutenant Stephan Decatur's famous boarding and burning of the captured frigate, USS Philadelphia, in Tripoli harbor after the US warship had been seized by the Barbary PiratesÂ… the international terrorists of the early 19th century.
And to be here on the 30th of January coincides with the anniversary of the launching of the ironclad, USS Monitor Â… Â…which gave birth to the modern warship Â… in 1862 Â… the same year this institution was established.

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Recaptured the USS Philadelphia from the Tripolitans, in the harbor of Tripoli, and destroyed her, 16 February 1804.
Served as Midshipman on the USS United States, 1798-1799, War with France.
15 January 1815, the USS President had a severe engagement with the British West India Squadron, and surrendered after having lost a quarter of her crew and being surrounded by three frigates Decatur was made prisoner, taken to Bermuda, and from there sent to New London on parole, in the British frigate HMS Narcissus.

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1804 â€“ September 6 â€“ Captain Bainbridge, skipper of the scuttled USS Philadelphia, and shipâ€™s doctor Dr. Cowdery and a detachment of prisoners find 13 bodies washed ashore Tripoli harbor, three identified as officers, which are buried 100 yards south of the harbor near the castle.
1799 â€“ June 22 â€“ Richardâ€™s brother Constant dies in Europe in boating accident.
1801â€“ USS Boston sails to France with new ambassador and family.

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In 1799 Congress authorized $522,678 in funds for the purchase of land to establish the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
Forrestal arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in September 1992 for her scheduled 14-month complex overhaul, but the overhaul was discontinued in March 1993 when the Forrestal was designated for decommissioning.
To maintain the workforce needed to complete the rehauling of the USS Kennedy, employees' needs for a smooth transition into new careers were met through special funding for retraining and counseling services ranging from retirement planning, financial planning, and planning for a new career.

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1804 Â– September 6 Â– Captain Bainbridge, skipper of the scuttled USS Philadelphia, and shipÂ’s doctor Dr. Cowdery and a detachment of prisoners find 13 bodies washed ashore Tripoli harbor, three identified as officers, which are buried 100 yards south of the harbor near the castle.
1799 Â– June 22 Â– RichardÂ’s brother Constant dies in Europe in boating accident.
1801 Â– USS Boston sails to France with new ambassador and family.

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In 1799 the US Congress authorized $522,678 in funds for the purchase of land to establish the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
The USS OLYMPIA was the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron and was launched on November 5, 1892 from her San Francisco-based Union Iron Works builder.
Surrounded by the other much larger ships of Penn's Landing, the 'tiny' USS Becuna sits inauspiciously between the dock and the cruiser USS Olympia; however, looks can be very deceiving and the submarine Becuna was quite a mighty adversary.

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USS Philadelphia (1776, 1799, C 4, CL 41, SSN 690)
USS Cincinnati (C 7, CL 6, SSN 693)
USS Cole (DDG-67) - badly damaged by an attack in Aden, Yemen

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Latrobe was chiefly responsible for introducing the Greek Revival in the U.S. His Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia was the first Greek building in the country and was characteristic of his free adaptation of ancient precedent and vaulted construction.
1802 Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838) published "The New American Practical Navigator," later known as the "seaman’s bible." It was a revision of his 1799 and 1800 works, which in turn revised the 1722 work of John Hamilton Moore.
Captain Stephen Decatur, commanding the USS United States, had dismasted the 35-gun Macedonian off the Canary Islands and, after spending two weeks restoring the prize to sailing condition, brought her back to New York after a return voyage of nearly 4,000 miles.

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In 1799 Congress authorized $522,678 in funds for the purchase of land to establish the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
To maintain the workforce needed to complete the rehauling of the USS Kennedy, employees' needs for a smooth transition into new careers were met through special funding for retraining and counseling services ranging from retirement planning, financial planning, and planning for a new career.
Forrestal arrived at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in September 1992 for her scheduled 14-month complex overhaul, but the overhaul was discontinued in March 1993 when the Forrestal was designated for decommissioning.

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Â USS Retaliation (1798)

28 June 1799 \n-\nFate:\nSold, 29 November 1799 \n-\n!colspan="2" align="center" style="color: white; height: 30px; background: navy no-repeat scroll top left;"General Characteristics\n-\nDisplacement:\n107 tons\n-\nLength:\n\n-\nBeam:\n\n-\nDraught:\n\n-\nPropulsion:\n\n-\nSpeed:\n\n-\nComplement:\n76 officers and enlisted\n-\nArmament:\n14 guns\n} The first USS Retaliation was a French privateer captured and then served in the United States Navy during Quasi-War with France.
The U.S. Navy purchased La Croyable on 30 July 1798, manned her at Philadelphia, renamed her Retaliation, and placed her under the command of Lt. William Bainbridge.
He saved Montezuma and Norfolk by convincing the senior French commander that those American warships were too powerful for his frigates and induced him to abandon the chase.

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1775 May, George Washington went to the Philadelphia State House where the Second Continental Congress was meeting and John Adams moved to name him Commander-in-chief of the Continental army.
On the new warship, USS Princeton, the shipboard cannon called the "Peacemaker" exploded during a demonstration firing.
One of his officers, "Light-horse Harry" Lee, summed up how Americans felt about George Washington: "First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." George Washington died at his Mount Vernon home on December 14, 1799, at the age of 67.

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Â US People--Dickerson, Mahlon, Secretary of the Navy, 1834-1838.

Dickerson first won political office in 1799, when he became a member of Philadelphia's common council.
USS Dickerson (DD-157, later APD-21), 1919-1945, was named in honor of Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson.
Mahlon Dickerson was born in Morris County, New Jersey, on 17 April 1770.

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The second Bass (SSK-2) was launched 2 May 1951 as USS K-2 by Mare Island Naval Shipyard; sponsored by Mrs.
Commodore Barry died at Strawberry Hill, near Philad elphia, 13 September 1803 and was buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Under War Department orders she patrolled off South Carolina (1799-1801) on coast defense.

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Â USS Retaliation (1798) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first USS Retaliation was a French privateer captured and then served in the United States Navy during Quasi-War with France.
Her crew was then discharged and the schooner was sold on 29 November 1799 to Thomas and Peter Mackie.
The U.S. Navy purchased La Croyable on 30 July 1798, manned her at Philadelphia, renamed her Retaliation, and placed her under the command of Lt. William Bainbridge.

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Barry, in 1782, also won a victory in the last major naval engagement of the war, and was the senior officer of the navy when he died in Philadelphia in 1803.
History of the USS Providence from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Department of the Navy - Naval Historical Center.
Commodore Barry sailed from Newport several times during the war, and in 1799, by the order of the President, he carried American envoys from Newport to France in the frigate United States.

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The navy got around this by doing away with the worn-out vessels and giving her name to an entirely new one, charging it up as a "great repair on the USS so-and-so." It became increasingly difficult to follow this practice in records.
She was launched in September 1799, and 10 weeks later, was presented to the United States Navy and accepted by Captain Edward Preble, her first commander.
Commodore Edward Preble, by far the most capable leader of the Mediterranean Squadron, decided that the Philadelphia now floating free as a powerful addition to the Tripolitan fleet, should be burned.

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