The First Two USS New Yorks

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The first New York was a gondola, hurriedly-built on Lake Champlain, New York, in 1776 and participated in the Battle of Valcour Island on Oct. 11, 1776. The American fleet, under the command of Benedict Arnold was most captured or sunk, with the New York escaping. One of then, the USS Philadelphia, was sunk and raised in 1935 and is now in the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

The second USS New York was a three-masted, wooden-hulled frigate commissioned in 1800. It was one of five frigates built by the states for the Federal government by subscription.

The New York was 145-feet long, had a 38-foot beam and complement of 340 officers and enlisted, mounting 26 X 18 pounder guns and 20 X 32-pdr. carronades.

The ship served in the Caribbean and along the Barbary Coast before returning to the Washington Navy Yard where it was put in ordinary from 1803 until burned by the British when they captured the city in 1814 during the War of 1812.

And, That's Just Two of Them. --Cooter