Sunday, January 30, 2022

USS Confederacy-- Part 2: General Characteristics

 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

959 tons

153 feet

35 feet 6 inches beam

Complement:  260 officers and men

Armament:

Twenty-eight 12-pdr. guns

Six 6-pdr. guns

She was launched  8 November 1778 at Chatham (Norwich), Connecticut, and towed to New London to be prepared for sea.

--Brock-Perry


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