Hardware Light Frigate USS Essex
Jul 07, 2020
1 minute
By Jon Guttman
Illustration by Tony Bryan
unded by public subscription in Essex County, Mass., laid down in Salem on April 13, 1799, launched on September 30 and commissioned on December 17, USS was one of six frigates the perennially slowacting Congress had ordered five years earlier. It proved the most successful.
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