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USS Congress
Five
United States Navy
ships have been named
USS
Congress
, after the
legislature of the US
.
The first
Congress
[?]
was a
galley
built on
Lake Champlain
, and that served as
flagship
in the
Battle of Valcour Island
.
The second
Congress
was a 28-gun
sailing frigate[?]
(length 126 ft, breadth 34.9 ft, depth 10.5 ft) built by
Lancaster Burling[?]
at
Poughkeepsie, New York
, under authority of an act of the
Second Continental Congress[?]
dated
13 December
1775
. One of the first 13 ships authorized to be built by the new government, she was placed under the command of
Captain Grenell[?]
in the summer of
1776
. Before her outfitting was completed, the
British
occupied the approaches to the
Hudson River
and extended their control of the environs throughout
1777
. The infant
Continental Navy[?]
suffered the destruction of
Congress
in October 1777 to prevent her seizure by the enemy.
The third
Congress
was a 36-gun
sailing frigate[?]
launched in
1799
and in service periodically until she was broken up in
1834
.
The fourth
Congress
[?]
was a
sailing frigate[?]
mounting 52 guns, launched in
1841
, active in the
Mexican-American War
, and destroyed by the
ironclad[?]
CSS
Virginia
in
1862
.
The fifth
Congress
[?]
was a
screw sloop[?]
commissioned in
1870
and decommissioned
1876
.
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