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&sq=&lang=&file=File:LC-DIG-PPMSCA-33814_(17367121731).jpg) Macedonian, port view, during the Civil War
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | USS Macedonian |
| Builder | Gosport Shipyard |
| Launched | 1836 |
| Commissioned | 1836 |
| Refit | Razeed to a sloop-of-war, 1852 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Frigate |
| Tonnage | 1341 |
| Length | 164 ft (50 m) |
| Beam | 41 ft (12 m) |
| Draft | 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Complement | 489 officers and enlisted |
| Armament | 36 guns |
The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy, carrying 36 guns. Rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia beginning in 1832, the new Macedonian was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Captain Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command.