List of sailing frigates of the United States Navy
United States Navy
Table:
Name
Type
Rate[1]
Class
Dates of Service
Fate

Adams[3]
2nd class[5]
28

1799–1814[3]
scuttled and burned to prevent capture[3]

Baltimore
3rd class
32

1798–1801
sold

Boston[3]
2nd class[5]
28

1799–1814[3]
burned to prevent capture[3]

Brandywine[6][7]
1st class[6]
50
Template:Sclass-[8]
1825–1864[9]
destroyed by fire[9]

Chesapeake[2]
2nd class[5]
36

1800–1813[2]
captured by the British[2]

Columbia[9]
1st class[6]
44
Template:Sclass-[10]
1813–1814[9]
burned on the stocks to prevent capture[9]

Columbia[6]
1st class[6]
50
Template:Sclass-[8]
1838–1861
scuttled and burned to prevent capture

Congress[2]
2nd class[11]
36 (38)
Template:Sclass-[2]
1799–1834[2]
broken up[2]

Congress[12]
1st class[12]
52

1841–1862[10]
burned and sank after action with CSS Virginia[10]

Connecticut
3rd class
24

1799–1801
sold

Constellation[2]
2nd class[11]
36 (38)
Template:Sclass-[2]
1797–1853[2]
broken up

Constitution[2]
1st class[11]
44
Template:Sclass-[2]
1797[3] to date
remains in commission

Cumberland[6]
1st class[6]
50
Template:Sclass-[8]
1842–1855
converted to sloop 1855
sunk by CSS Virginia 1862

Cyane
3rd class
22
Banterer-class
1815–1836[13]
broken up

Delaware
3rd class[14]
20

1798–1801
sold

Essex[3]
2nd class[15]
32

1799–1814[3]
captured by the British[3]

Ganges
3rd class[16]
24

1798–1801
sold

General Greene[3]
2nd class
30

1799–1805[3]
hulked; destroyed by fire 1814[3]

George Washington
3rd class[14]
24

1798–1802
sold

Guerriere[11]
1st class[11]
44
Template:Sclass-[10]
1814–1841[10]
broken up[10]

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USS Adams was a 28-gun ( rated ) sailing frigate of the United States Navy . She was laid down in 1797 at New York City by John Jackson and William Sheffield and launched on 8 June 1799 . Captain Richard Valentine Morris took command of the ship .
The Sailing frigate classification system used during the 19th Century was a classification scheme used in several western countries . It was officially adopted by the United States Navy . The system classified sailing frigates according to their gun rating .
USS Baltimore was a ship of the United States Navy . This 20-gun ship was built in 1798 by Joseph Caverly in Baltimore , Maryland , as Adriana . She was purchased with funds donated by the citizens of Baltimore to the Navy on 23 May 1798 , renamed Baltimore , and placed under the command of Captain Isaac Phillips . In August 1798 the Baltimore was ordered to join the Constellation and convoy a fleet of merchantmen home from Havana , Cuba . Late in 1798 , Baltimore and Constitution were escorting a large convoy to Havana , when the latter sprung her bowsprit and returned home . Baltimore later fell in with two British frigates , on 16 November 1798 , who impressed 55 of her crew ( 50 were returned ) . On his return to the United States , Captain Phillips was dismissed for permitting an outrage to the American flag . The incident also created much anti-British feeling among the Americans . During 1799 Baltimore took two prizes , and the following year three more , as well as recapturing three American vessels which had fallen into French hands . At the close of the Quasi-War with France , she carried the ratified peace treaty to France . Upon her return , Baltimore was sold at Philadelphia in 1801 .
The third USS Boston was a 32-gun wooden-hulled , three-masted frigate of the United States Navy . Boston was built by public subscription in Boston under the Act of 30 June 1798 . Boston was active during the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War . On 12 October 1800 , Boston engaged and captured the French corvette Berceau . Boston was laid up in 1802 , and considered not worth repairing at the outbreak of the War of 1812 . She was burned at the Washington Naval Yard on 24 August 1814 to prevent her capture by British forces .
USS Brandywine ( formerly named Susquehanna ) was a wooden-hulled , three-masted frigate of the United States Navy bearing 44 guns which had the initial task of conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France . She was later recommissioned a number of times for service in various theaters , such as in the Mediterranean , in China and in the South Atlantic Ocean . During several instances she served as a role player in American gunboat diplomacy , a role she was well suited for with her large long-range 32-pounder guns and her short-range carronades which produced fragmentation and fire damage to the ship fired upon , as well as splinter and shrapnel injury to its crew .
Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled , three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy . She was one of the original six frigates whose construction was authorized by the Naval Act of 1794 . Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young navy 's capital ships . Chesapeake was originally designed as a 44-gun frigate , but construction delays , material shortages and budget problems caused builder Josiah Fox to alter her design to 38 guns . Launched at the Gosport Navy Yard on 2 December 1799 , Chesapeake began her career during the Quasi-War with France and later saw service in the First Barbary War . On 22 June 1807 she was fired upon by HMS Leopard of the Royal Navy for refusing to allow a search for deserters . The event , now known as the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair , angered the American public and government and was a precipitating factor that led to the War of 1812 . As a result of the affair , Chesapeake 's commanding officer , James Barron , was court-martialed and the United States instituted the Embargo Act of 1807 against the United Kingdom . Early in the War of 1812 she made one patrol and captured five British merchant ships . She was captured by HMS Shannon shortly after sailing from Boston , Massachusetts , on 1 June 1813 . The Royal Navy took her into their service as HMS Chesapeake , where she served until she was broken up and her timbers sold in 1819 . They are now part of the Chesapeake Mill in Wickham , England .
The first USS Columbia of the United States Navy was a three-masted , wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy , rated for 50 guns . She was built at Washington Navy Yard . Her keel was laid in 1825 , but as was typical of much Navy construction during this period , she was not launched until much later , on 9 March 1836 . On her first cruise , from May 1838 - June 1840 with Lieutenant George A. Magruder in command , Columbia rounded the Cape of Good Hope to become flagship of Commodore George C. Read in the East India Squadron . She returned to the United States by way of Cape Horn , becoming one of the first U.S. naval ships to circumnavigate the globe . She participated in the 1838 Second Sumatran Expedition in response to a Maylay attack on an American merchant vessel . Columbia served as flagship of the Home Squadron from January-May 1842 ; cruised on Brazil Squadron from July 1842 - February 1844 and in the Mediterranean Squadron from May-December 1844 . She returned to the Brazil Squadron as flagship from November 1845 - October 1847 , and was placed in ordinary at Norfolk Navy Yard upon her return home . Except for a cruise as flagship of the Home Squadron from January 1853 - March 1855 , she remained at Norfolk until the outbreak of the American Civil War . Columbia was scuttled and burned by Union forces to avoid her capture by Confederates upon the surrender of Norfolk Navy Yard on 21 April 1861 . Following the close of the war she was raised and sold at Norfolk on 10 October 1867 .
USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled , three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy . James Hackett built her in Portsmouth New Hampshire and she was launched on 15 August 1799 . She was one of the original six frigates whose construction the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized . The name Congress was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed.Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young Navy 's capital ships , and so Congress and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than the standard frigates of the period . Her first duties with the newly formed United States Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War . During the War of 1812 she made several extended length cruises in company with her sister ship President and captured , or assisted in the capture of twenty British merchant ships . At the end of 1813 , due to a lack of materials to repair her , she was placed in ordinary for the remainder of the war . In 1815 she returned to service for the Second Barbary War and made patrols through 1816 . In the 1820s she helped suppress piracy in the West Indies , made several voyages to South America , and was the first U.S. warship to visit China . Congress spent her last ten years of service as a receiving ship until ordered broken up in 1834 .
USS Congress ( 1841 ) - the fourth United States Navy ship to carry that name - was a sailing frigate , like her predecessor , USS Congress ( 1799 ) . Congress served in the Mediterranean , South Atlantic Ocean , and in the Pacific Ocean . She continued to operate as an American warship until the American Civil War , when she was sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia in battle of Newport News , Virginia .
CSS Virginia was the first steam-powered ironclad warship built by the Confederate States Navy during the first year of the American Civil War ; she was constructed as a casemate ironclad using the raised and cut down original lower hull and engines of the scuttled steam frigate USS Merrimack . Virginia was one of the participants in the Battle of Hampton Roads , opposing the Union 's USS Monitor in March 1862 . The battle is chiefly significant in naval history as the first battle between ironclads .
The Connecticut was a sailing frigate built by Seth Overton at Chatham , Conn. and launched 6 June 1799 at Middletown , Conn. She sailed 15 Oct. 1799 under the command of Captain M. Tryon for the Guadaloupe Station , and cruised in the West Indies for a year during the Quasi-War with France , protecting American commerce from French privateers . Connecticut 's successful career was highlighted by the capture of four privateers and the recapture of seven American merchantmen . Arriving at New London , Conn. , 18 Oct. 1800 , Connecticut was sold at New York in 1801 . The mensurations are designed by the plan of the Departement of the Navy .
USS Constellation was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled , three-masted frigate of the United States Navy . It was built under the direction of David Stodder at The Joseph and Samuel Sterett shipyard on Harris Creek in Baltimore 's Fell 's Point maritime community , and was launched on 7 September 1797 . The ship was one of the original six frigates whose construction the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized . The name Constellation was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed . The Flag Act of 1777 speaks of how the stars in the flag are representing a new constellation . Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young Navy 's capital ships , and so Constellation and its sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period . The Constellation 's first duties with the newly formed US Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War .
USS Constitution , also known as Old Ironsides , is a wooden-hulled , three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy . She is the world 's oldest commissioned naval vessel still afloat . [ Note 1 ] She was launched in 1797 , one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed . The name Constitution was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed . Joshua Humphreys designed the frigates to be the young Navy 's capital ships , and so Constitution and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period . She was built at Edmund Hartt 's shipyard in the North End of Boston , Massachusetts . Her first duties were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi-War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War . Constitution is most noted for her actions during the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom , when she captured numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships : HMS Guerriere , Java , Pictou , Cyane , and Levant . The battle with Guerriere earned her the nickname Old Ironsides and public adoration that has repeatedly saved her from scrapping . She continued to serve as flagship in the Mediterranean and African squadrons , and she circled the world in the 1840s . During the American Civil War , she served as a training ship for the United States Naval Academy . She carried American artwork and industrial displays to the Paris Exposition of 1878 .
The first USS Cumberland was a 50-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy . She was the first ship sunk by the ironclad CSS Virginia . Cumberland began in the pages of a Congressional Act . Congress passed in 1816 An act for the gradual increase of the Navy of the United States . The act called for the U.S. to build several ships-of-the-line and several new frigates , of which Cumberland was to be one . Money issues , however , prevented Cumberland from being finished in a timely manner . It was not until Secretary of the Navy Abel Parker Upshur came to office that the ship was finished . A war scare with Britain led Upshur to order the completion of several wooden sailing ships and for the construction of new steam powered ships . Designed by famed American designer William Doughty , Cumberland was one a series of frigates in a class called the Raritan-class . The design borrowed heavily from older American frigate designs such as Constitution and Chesapeake . Specifically , Doughty liked the idea of giving a frigate more guns than European designs called for . As a result , he called for Cumberland and her sister ships to have a fully armed spar deck , along with guns on the gun deck .
HMS Cyane was a Royal Navy Banterer-class sixth-rate post ship of nominally 22 guns , built in 1806 at Topsham , near Exeter , England . She was ordered in January 1805 as HMS Columbine but renamed Cyane on 6 December of that year . Cyane had a distinguished career in British service that included the award in 1847 of a clasp to the Naval General Service Medal to any still surviving crew members of either of two actions . On 20 February 1815 , she and HMS Levant engaged USS Constitution ; outgunned , both had to surrender . She then served as USS Cyane , including a stint on anti-slavery duties , until she was broken up in 1836 .
The second USS Delaware was a ship which served in the United States Navy during Quasi-War with France . The USS Delaware was designed by naval architect William Doughty and built in the Philadelphia Naval Yard in 1794 as the merchant ship Hamburgh Packet . The Navy purchased her on May 5 , 1798 . Captain Stephen Decatur , Sr. , was appointed to command and outfit her for sea . During the Quasi-War with France , Delaware cruised to protect American merchant shipping from French privateers . She guarded convoys during their approach to Philadelphia and New York , patrolled the West Indies , and escorted convoys into Havana . Her first prize , the privateer La Croyable , was taken off Great Egg Harbor July 7 , 1798 . Lloyd 's List ( LL ) reported on 17 August that the American sloop-of-war Delaware had captured a French privateer of the American coast . The privateer had captured the merchantman Liberty , Vredenburg , master , which had been sailing from Philadelphia to Liverpool . Liberty had since been recaptured . From 14 July to 23 September , she cruised in the West Indies , often in company with the frigate United States , and together the ships took two privateers prize . During her second cruise in the West Indies , between December 15 , 1798 and May 20 , 1799 , she took another prize , and won the thanks of the merchants of Havana for the protection she had given merchantmen sailing to that port .
The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a 36-gun or 32-gun sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France , the First Barbary War , and in the War of 1812 . The British captured her in 1814 and she then served as HMS Essex until sold at public auction on 6 June 1837 .
USS Ganges was a man-of-war in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France . She was originally a fast sailing merchantman , built in Philadelphia in 1794 for the East Indies trade and named for the Ganges , India 's principal river , which flows into the Bay of Bengal . Ganges regularly sailed to Calcutta and Canton . Apparently she returned to civilian service after serving in the U.S. Navy between 1798 and 1801 .
The second USS General Greene was a frigate in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France . Named after American Revolution General Nathaneal Greene , she was built under government contract by Benjamin Talman and James De Wolf at Warren , Rhode Island . Launched on 21 January 1799 , the frigate was placed under command of Captain Christopher R. Perry . Perry 's son , a young midshipman named Oliver Hazard Perry , was assigned to his father 's ship . General Greene sailed on 2 June 1799 , joining the Governor Jay in convoying five merchantmen to Havana . Damage suffered in a heavy gale caused her to put in at Havana for repairs , and her crew was struck with yellow fever . More than 20 died and the frigate returned to Newport , Rhode Island , on 27 July with 37 men in various stages of recovery . After a thorough cleaning , fumigation , and change of ballast , she departed Newport on 23 September 1799 to take station at Cap Francois , San Domingo . General Greene remained off San Domingo for the following six months . In company with Boston , on 1 December 1799 she assisted in the capture of the schooner Flying Fish and retook the American schooner Weymouth , which had been captured by French privateer Hope . Much of her time was spent watching over the rebellion against General Toussaint in Haiti . She blockaded the port of Jacmel to cut off supplies of the rebels , and gave direct gunfire support to General Toussaint 's army in the capture of Jacmel on 27 February 1800 .
The first USS George Washington was a frigate in the United States Navy . She was named after President George Washington . George Washington was built as a merchant vessel at Providence , R.I. , in 1793 ; purchased by the Congress at Providence 12 October 1798 from John Brown and John Francis for $ 10,400 in cash and $ 30,000 in 6 percent navy stock , for use in the developing undeclared naval war ( the so-called Quasi-War ) with France , and converted to a warship under the supervision of Captain Silas Talbot with Captain Patrick Fletcher in command .
USS Guerriere was the first frigate built in the United States since 1801 . The name came from a fast 38-gun British frigate captured and destroyed in a half-hour battle by USS Constitution on 19 August 1812 . This victory was one of the United States ' first in the War of 1812 . She was built at the Philadelphia Navy Yard under the supervision of Joseph and Francis Grice . She was launched on 20 June 1814 under the command of Commodore John Rodgers and attached to the Delaware Flotilla . She served in the United States Navy during the Second Barbary War .