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The first USS Columbus was a ship in the Continental Navy. Built as a merchant ship at Philadelphia in 1774 as Sally , she was purchased from Willing , Morris & Co., for the Continental Navy in November 1775, Captain Abraham Whipple was given command.
Four ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Columbus, the first two after the explorer Christopher Columbus, and the other two after Columbus, Ohio, the capital of the state. USS Columbus (1774), a 24-gun armed ship purchased for the Continental Navy in 1775, and active until she was captured and burned in 1778
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The Continental Navy was the navy of the Thirteen Colonies (later the United States) during the American Revolutionary War.Founded on October 13, 1775, the fleet developed into a substantial force throughout the Revolutionary War, owing partially to the efforts of naval patrons within the Continental Congress.
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USS Vincennes and USS Columbus in Tokyo Bay, Japan, in July 1846 USS Vincennes and an American crewman in Edo Bay in 1846, depicted by a Japanese artist Ship of the Biddle fleet in Tokyo Bay in 1846. In December 1845, Biddle exchanged ratifications of the Treaty of Wanghia [7] James Biddle's grave marker at Christ Church Burial Ground in ...
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USS Alfred was placed in commission on 3 December 1775, with Capt. Dudley Saltonstall in command, as to serve as Hopkins' flagship, becoming the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes) hoisted by Lieutenant John Paul Jones in February 1776; [37] and the brigantine USS Andrew Doria, commandeered by ...