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A Revolutionary War painting depicting the Continental Navy frigate Confederacy is displayed at the Navy Art Gallery at the Washington Navy Yard.
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Name | USS Confederacy |
Builder | Norwich, Connecticut |
Launched | 8 November 1778 |
Fate | Captured 14 April 1781 |
Great Britain | |
Name | Confederate |
Fate | Broken up March 1782 |
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Type | Frigate |
Tons burthen | 959, or 970+86⁄94 (bm) |
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Complement | 260 officers and men |
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USS Confederacy was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the Continental Navy in the American Revolutionary War. The British Royal Navy captured her in March 1781. The British named her Confederate but never commissioned her. She reached England in about half-a-year and was broken up in 1782.