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  • ...in amongst the convoy they used to make great havoc, without the convoy or frigate knowing anything about it during the night. They found that they lost some ...alongside of us and steamed east for an hour and a half. Then she hailed us through a megaphone: 'Steamer ahoy! Hallo! Where are you bound to?' 'Sal
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  • ...ercules|f=t}} on 7 June, 1878, and on 22 August took command of the paddle-frigate {{UK-1Valorous}}. On 9 January, 1879, he was appointed to the ''Pallas'' a ...and had many irons in the fire in and outside the Admiralty and barked at us if papers came to him which were merely routine but papers would not go thr
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  • Following duty in the steam frigate ''Colorado'' on the European Station, another tour as instructor at the Nav ...President of the Board of Inquiry to investigate the destruction of the {{US-1Maine}}. On 26 March, he assumed command of the [[North Atlantic Station]
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  • |{{US-Iroquois|f=p}}||sloop||12 Apr, 1859||Wrecked 26 Aug, 1910 |{{US-Lackawanna|f=p}}||screw sloop||9 Aug, 1862||Sold 30 Jul, 1887
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  • ...nd of my old ship."<ref>Bradford. p. 100.</ref> Wilson would command the frigate from 24 February, 1885 until being discharged on 2 March, 1887.<ref>Wilson ...and Lord Morley noted, "Sir A. Wilsonstrikes me, and I think the others of us, as much the best-balanced sort of man, to say nothing of his having proved
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  • ...</ref> Her grandfather had been Sir Richard Pearson who had commanded the frigate ''Serapis'' in battle against John Paul Jones and the Continental Navy ship ...which is more than those confounded politicians do so perhaps he will suit us quite well. He had rather an ordeal the other night&mdash;poor man when he
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  • ...Station]], and was rated {{MidRN}} on 21 October. He was appointed to the frigate ''Raleigh'' on 19 May, 1877. While in the ''Raleigh'' he, with a coxswain, <blockquote>He ruled us - one other sub-lieut., a clerk, & 7 midshipmen, as a benevolent autocrat,
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  • ...to the naval designer than its predecessor. As an example, the ''Vernon'' frigate may be compared with the third-class cruiser ''Pearl'' of nearly the same d ...t in single ship actions a superiority of force is generally decisive. The frigate actions in the war with the United States in 1812, and the action between '
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  • * The US Navy's 1945 Submarine Design, by Norman Friedman * ''Leander'' Class Frigate Conversions, by Peter Hodges
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  • |{{US-Powhatan|f=p}}||side-wheel frigate||14 Feb, 1850||Sold 30 Jul, 1887 |{{US-Constellation|f=p}}||sailing sloop-of-war||26 Aug, 1854||Preserved 7 Aug, 1
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  • |{{US-1Vermont|f=p}}||receiving ship||14 Sep, 1848||Sold 15 Apr, 1902 |{{US-Hartford|f=p}}||screw sloop||22 Nov, 1858||Lost 20 Nov, 1956
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  • |{{US-1Kearsarge|f=p}}||screw sloop||11 Sep, 1861||Wrecked 2 Feb, 1894 |{{US-Ossipee|f=p}}||screw sloop||16 Nov, 1861||Sold 25 Mar, 1891
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  • |{{US-1Minnesota|f=p}}||screw frigate||1 Dec, 1855||Sold 12 Aug, 1901 |{{US-Nipsic|f=p}}||gunboat||6 Jun, 1878||Sold 13 Feb, 1913
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  • |nat=US |type=frigate
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  • |cat=Frigate |nat=US
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  • |cat=Frigate |nat=US
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  • |cat=Frigate |type=screw frigate
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  • Schoonmaker was appointed to command the {{US-Vandalia|f=t}} on 5 April, 1888.{{USOfficerReg1889|p. 7}} ''Vandalia'', along with the frigate {{US-1Trenton}} and the {{US-Nipsic|f=t}} arrived at Apia, Samoa during the spring of 1889 in response t
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  • |cat=Frigate |type=side-wheel frigate
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  • ...or the construction of the [[Torpedo Ram|torpedo rams]] {{US-Alarm}} and {{US-Intrepid}} in 1873.{{FriedmanUSDestroyersRev|p. 7}} {{CatPerson|US|1813|1891}}
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