USS Delaware (1776)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Delaware.

History
United States
NameUSS Delaware
Ordered13 December 1775
BuilderWarwick Coates
LaunchedJuly 1776
Captured27 September 1777
Great Britain
NameHMS Delaware
Acquired1777
FateSold April 1783
Great Britain
NameUnited States
Acquired1783 by purchase
FateSold 1786
French Navy Ensign French Navy EnsignFrance
NameDauphin
AcquiredBy purchase 1786 or 1788
FateStill in service in 1795
General characteristics [1]
Class and typeFrigate
Tons burthen560,[2] or 5631⁄49, or 695[3] (bm)
Length
  • Overall: 117 ft 0+1⁄2 in (35.7 m)
  • Keel: 98 ft 0+1⁄2 in (29.9 m) (deck)
Beam32 ft 10+1⁄2 in (10.0 m)
Depth of hold9 ft 8+1⁄2 in (3.0 m)
PropulsionSail
Armament
  • USN:22 × 12-pounder + 6 × 6-pounder guns
  • RN:28 × 9-pounder guns
  • Dauphin:32 guns
NotesBuilt of live oak[2]

USS Delaware was a 24-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy that had a short career in the American Revolutionary War as the British Royal Navy captured her in 1777. The Royal Navy took her in as an "armed ship", and later classed her a sixth rate. The Royal Navy sold her in 1783. British owners named her United States and then French interests purchased her and named her Dauphin. She spent some years as a whaler and then in March 1795 she was converted at Charleston, South Carolina, to French privateer. Her subsequent fate is unclear.

  1. ^ Winfield (2007), p. 240.
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