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Name | USS Essex |
Namesake | Essex County, Massachusetts |
Builder | Enos Briggs, Salem, Massachusetts[1] |
Cost | $139,362 |
Laid down | 1798 |
Launched | 30 September 1799 |
Commissioned | 17 December 1799 |
Captured | 28 March 1814 |
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Name | HMS Essex |
Acquired | 28 March 1814 |
Fate | Sold at Public Auction, 6 June 1837 |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Fifth-rate Frigate |
Displacement | 850 long tons (864 t) |
Tons burthen | 89722⁄94(bm) |
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Beam | 37 ft 3+1⁄2 in (11.4 m) |
Draft | 12 ft 3 in (3.7 m) |
Depth of hold | 11 ft 9 in (3.6 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Speed | 11.4 knots (21.1 km/h; 13.1 mph) |
General characteristics American service | |
Armament | 40 × 32-pounder carronades + 6 × 12-pounder guns |
General characteristics British service | |
Complement | 315 officers and enlisted |
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The first USS Essex of the United States Navy was a 36-gun [3] or 32-gun[4] sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War, and in the War of 1812. The British captured her in 1814 and she then served as HMS Essex until sold at public auction on 6 June 1837.
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