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The first USS Lexington of the Thirteen Colonies was a brig purchased in 1776. The Lexington was an 86-foot (26 m) two-mast wartime sailing ship for the fledgling Continental Navy of the Colonists during the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).
To transport gunpowder and arms, Robert Morris of the Pennsylvania Committee of Safety chartered the newly built brig, also called brigantine, Nancy and her captain, Hugh Montgomery on March 1, 1776. [9] [10] On March 14, 1776, John Barry was commissioned captain of the fourteen-gun Lexington in the Continental Navy. [11]
USS Lexington may refer to these ships of the United States Navy: . USS Lexington (1776), a brigantine acquired in 1776 and captured in 1777 USS Lexington (1825), a sloop-of-war in commission from 1826–1830 and 1831–1855
USS Hancock ( United States Navy): The 32-gun frigate was captured on 8 July by the Royal Navy's HMS Rainbow (44). Industrious Bee ( Great Britain): The brigantine was captured on 29 August by the Continental Navy's USS Lee. USS Lexington (1776) ( United States Navy): The 14-gun brigantine was captured by the Royal Navy's HMS Alert.
Captain Barry's first American command was USS Lexington, of 14 guns, which began on December 7, 1775. He was the first officer, army or navy, to receive a commission from the Continental Congress. [10] Lexington sailed on March 31, 1776.
USS Lexington (1776) USS Liberty (1775) USS Lynch (1776) M. USS Montgomery (1776) USS Morris (1778) USS Morris (1779) USS Mosquito (1775) USS Mosquito (schooner) N ...
The first war that an organized United States Merchant Marine took part in was the American Revolutionary War, which lasted from 1775 to 1783.The first merchant marine action in the war took place on June 12, 1775, when a group of Machias, Maine citizens, after hearing the news of what happened in Concord and Lexington, boarded and captured the schooner British warship HMS Margaretta.
The Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 April 1775 drew thousands of militia forces from throughout New England to the towns surrounding Boston.These men remained in the area and their numbers grew, placing the British forces in Boston under siege when they blocked all land access to the peninsula.