United States Navy
Name | Type | Rate | Class | Dates of Service | Fate |
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Adams | 2nd class | 28 | 1799–1814 | scuttled and burned to prevent capture | |
Baltimore | 3rd class | 20 | 1798–1801 | sold | |
Boston | 2nd class | 28 | 1799–1814 | burned to prevent capture | |
Brandywine | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1825–1864 | destroyed by fire |
Chesapeake | 2nd class | 36 | 1800–1813 | captured by the British | |
Columbia | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1813–1814 | burned on the stocks to prevent capture |
Columbia | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1838–1861 | scuttled and burned to prevent capture |
Congress | 2nd class | 36 (38) | Constellation-class | 1799–1834 | broken up |
Congress | 1st class | 52 | 1841–1862 | burned and sank after action with CSS Virginia | |
Connecticut | 3rd class | 24 | 1799–1801 | sold | |
Constellation | 2nd class | 36 (38) | Constellation-class | 1797–1853 | broken up |
Constitution | 1st class | 54 | United States-class | 1797 to date | remains in commission |
Cumberland | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1842–1855 | converted to sloop 1855 sunk by CSS Virginia 1862 |
Cyane | 3rd class | 22 | Banterer-class | 1815–1836 | broken up |
Delaware | 3rd class | 20 | 1798–1801 | sold | |
Essex | 2nd class | 32 | 1799–1814 | captured by the British | |
Ganges | 3rd class | 24 | 1798–1801 | sold | |
General Greene | 2nd class | 30 | 1799–1805 | hulked; destroyed by fire 1814 | |
George Washington | 3rd class | 24 | 1798–1802 | sold | |
Guerriere | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1814–1841 | broken up |
Hudson | 1st class | 44 | 1828–1844 | broken up | |
Independence | 1st class | 54 | 1836–1912 | Built 1814 as a 90-gun ship of the line, razeed 1836, scrapped 1915 at San Francisco | |
Insurgent | 2nd class | 32 | Sémillante-class | 1799–1800 | lost at sea |
Java | 1st class | 44 | Guerriere-class | 1814–1842 | broken up, Norfolk, Virginia |
John Adams | 2nd class | 28 | 1799–1867 | razeed to 20-gun corvette 1807; rebuilt as 24-gun frigate 1812 sold |
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Macedonian | 2nd class | 38 | Lively-class | 1812–1828 | broken up, Norfolk, Virginia |
Macedonian | 2nd class | 36 | 1836–1852 | razeed to sloop-of war, 1852 sold 1871 |
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Merrimack | 3rd class | 24 | 1798–1801 | sold | |
Mohawk | 2nd class | 38 | 1814–1823 | sunk | |
Montezuma | 3rd class | 20 | 1798–1799 | sold | |
New York | 2nd class | 36 | 1800–1814 | burned by the British | |
Philadelphia | 1st class | 44 (36) | 1799–1804 | captured by Tripoli boarded and burned by Stephen Decatur |
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Plattsburg | 1st class | 1814–1825 | sold on ways | ||
Portsmouth | 3rd class | 24 | 1798–1801 | sold | |
Potomac | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1831–1877 | sold |
President | 1st class | 44 | United States-class | 1800–1815 | captured by the British |
Raritan | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1843–1861 | destroyed to prevent capture |
Sabine | 1st class | 52 | Sabine-class | 1855–1883 | sold |
Santee | 1st class | 52 | Sabine-class | 1855–1912 | sank at moorings |
Savannah | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1844–1857 | converted to sloop 1857 sold 1883 |
St. Lawrence | 1st class | 50 | Potomac-class | 1848–1875 | sold |
Superior | 1st class | 1814–1825 | sold | ||
Trumbull | 3rd class | 24 | 1799–1801 | sold | |
United States | 1st class | 44 | United States-class | 1797–1861 1862–1866 |
broken up for scrap |
Warren | 3rd class | 24 | 1799–1801 | sold |
Ten additional ships of the Potomac class were appropriated, but never built.
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