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    Porter, for his father's old sailing frigate, the USS Essex. This Essex was originally constructed in 1856 at New Albany, Indiana as a steam-powered ferry...
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  • captured in 1814 Essex Junior was a British whaler captured by Essex and put into service until recaptured in 1814 USS Essex (1856) was an ironclad steamer...
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    armour. Cottonclad warship Battle of Fort Henry USS Conestoga (1861) USS Essex (1856) USS Lexington (1861) USS Tyler (1857) Konstam, Angus (2002). Mississippi...
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  • support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. USS Essex (1856), launched in 1856 as New Era, was an ironclad gunboat during the American Civil...
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    plantation near Prophet Island. There were no casualties. The ironclad USS Essex (1856) narrowly escaped an underwater explosive tripwire at Profit Island...
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    of the USS Essex from 1863 to 1864, an ironclad gunship on the Mississippi River. Captain Townsend died of heatstroke while commanding the USS Wachusett...
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  • Lewis, Essex County, New York Lewis, Lewis County, New York Lewis, North Carolina Lewis, Vermont Lewis, Wisconsin USS Lewis (1861), a sailing ship USS Lewis...
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    under Captain Porter, his foster father. While serving aboard the frigate USS Essex, Farragut participated in the capture of HMS Alert on August 13, 1812...
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  • Croft, Lincolnshire, England New England Island, an uninhabited island in Essex, England New England Quarter, a mixed-use development in Brighton and Hove...
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  • Thumbnail for USS Congress (1799)
    USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. James Hackett built her at the Portsmouth...
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    USS Wasp of the United States Navy was a sailing sloop-of-war captured by the British in the early months of the War of 1812. She was constructed in 1806...
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    USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is a three-masted wooden-hulled heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She is the world's oldest commissioned...
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    USS Massachusetts was a steamer built in 1845 and acquired by the U.S. War Department in 1847. She was used by the U.S. Army as a transport during the...
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    the frigates USS Boston, USS Essex, USS Philadelphia and USS President as well as the sloop-of-war USS George Washington and the schooner USS Enterprise...
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    Stephen Decatur (category Commanders of the USS Constitution)
    war, Decatur was assigned duty aboard the frigate USS Essex to serve as the first lieutenant. Essex, bearing 32 guns, was commanded by William Bainbridge...
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    James M. Elam (category 1856 deaths)
    1843. Later, his son, James Essex Elam was elected Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. James M. Elam died on November 7, 1856, and was buried in the family...
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    (AOG-27) USS Escolar (SS-294) USS Esmeraldo County (LST-761) USS Espada (SS-355) USS Esselen (AT-147/ATO-147) USS Essex (1799, 1856, 1876, CV-9, LHD-2) USS Essex...
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    the United Kingdom and France against the Qing dynasty of China between 1856 and 1860. It was the second major conflict in the Opium Wars, which were...
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  • from 1853 to 1855, the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga in the Home Squadron from 1856 to 1858, and the sloop-of-war USS Preble in the Brazil Squadron from 1858...
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    military service of the United States, and served under William D. Porter on USS Essex. According to The New York Times, Brown volunteered to destroy a ferry-boat...
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    42°8′14″N 80°5′15″W / 42.13722°N 80.08750°W / 42.13722; -80.08750 USS Niagara, commonly called the U.S. Brig Niagara or the Flagship Niagara, is a...
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    USS Fort Henry and USS Hunchback mounted IX-inch Dahlgrens on pivot mounts. IX-inch Dahlgrens were used on several river gunboats such as USS Essex and...
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    Confederate 'timberclads' fought well against the ironclads. The USS Essex had been constructed in 1856. She was a 1000-ton river gunboat, converted from her original...
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  • A4D-2 Skyhawks in flight over USS Essex during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961....
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    (Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport) are in the localities of Essex Junction and South Burlington, respectively. The Vermont Army National Guard...
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    Archived from the original on 25 November 2010. Retrieved 27 April 2010. "U.S.S. Essex". Lake Superior Shipwrecks. Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 4...
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    been named for this battle: USS Lake Champlain (1917), a cargo ship during WWII. Later sold USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) History...
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    USS President was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, nominally rated at 44 guns; she was launched in April 1800 from...
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    The capture of USS President was one of many naval actions fought at the end of the War of 1812. The frigate USS President tried to break out of New York...
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    Shannon vs USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813 (the bloodiest such action of the war), HMS Phoebe vs USS Essex on 28 March 1814, HMS Endymion vs USS President...
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