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    USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy. Alligator was laid down on 26 June 1820 by the Boston Navy Yard; launched on 2 November 1820;...
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  • during the Battle of Lake Borgne. USS Alligator (1820) was a schooner, launched in 1820, and scuttled in 1822 USS Alligator (1862) was a non-commissioned...
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    French intervention in Spain. November 9 – Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator (1820) engages three pirate schooners off Cuba, as part of the West Indies...
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    A. W. Greely, originally named Donald II Ada K. Damon Albatross USS Alligator (1820) Alvin Clark America American Spirit La Amistad Annie Larsen Arbuthnot...
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  • of William A. Richardson. November 9 – Action of 9 November 1822: USS Alligator (1820) engages three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba as part of...
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  • The first USS Porpoise was a topsail schooner in the United States Navy. Porpoise was built in 1820 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine. The schooners...
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    USS Lynx, a 6-gun Baltimore Clipper rigged schooner, was built for the United States Navy by James Owner of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., in 1814, intended...
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  • became a general trader crossing the Atlantic. She was wrecked in 1820. Alligator entered Lloyd's Register (LR) in 1794 with Robert Curling, master,...
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    Essex (whaleship) (category Maritime incidents in November 1820)
    from Nantucket, Massachusetts, which was launched in 1799. On November 20, 1820, while at sea in the southern Pacific Ocean under the command of Captain...
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  • Comdg. U.S. Naval Station Philadelphia De Villeroi's next ship, the USS Alligator, would be largely inspired from this design. De Villeroi proposed a...
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    1822 was a naval battle fought between the United States Navy schooner USS Alligator and a squadron of three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba during...
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    2000) USS Somers at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 8 June 2011) USS Alligator at the Wayback Machine (archived 2 March 2004) USS Constitution...
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    USS Grampus was a schooner in the United States Navy. She was the first U.S. Navy ship to be named for the Grampus griseus, also known as Risso's dolphin...
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    Peacock, two brigs, USS Spark and USS Enterprise, and the schooners USS Grampus, USS Alligator, USS Shark and USS Porpoise. Two gunboats, No. 158 and...
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    USS Peacock, two brigs, USS Spark and USS Enterprise, the schooners USS Grampus, USS Alligator, USS Shark and USS Porpoise. Gun schooners from the revenue...
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  • American Civil War both sides made use of submarines. Examples were the Alligator, for the Union, and the Hunley, for the Confederacy. The Hunley was the...
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    (APA-127) USS Allentown (PG-160/PF-52) USS Alliance (1778, 1877, AMc-64) USS Alligator (1809, 1813, 1820, 1862) USS Allioth (AK-109/IX-204/AVS-4) USS Alloway...
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  • Martha (1810 ship) (category Maritime incidents in May 1820)
    She remained in the South Pacific as a whaler until she was condemned in 1820 as unseaworthy and then sold for breaking up. Martha entered Lloyd's Register...
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  • Antelope (1802 slave ship) (category Maritime incidents in March 1820)
    Antelope was a slave ship that the United States captured in 1820 with more than 280 captive Africans aboard. It had been legally engaged in the African...
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    state, most famously USS North Carolina in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II. Now decommissioned, she is part of the USS North Carolina Battleship...
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    PS Comet (category 1820 in Scotland)
    William (via the Crinan Canal), a trip which took four days. On 15 December 1820 the Comet was wrecked in strong currents at Craignish Point near Oban, with...
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    the eastern diamondback, copperhead, and cottonmouth snakes as well as alligators; amphibians include salamanders, frogs and toads. There are about 79 species...
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  • Grant (1798 ship) (category Maritime incidents in July 1820)
    a West Indiaman or a London-based transport. She was last heard from in 1820; Spanish authorities may have seized her off Peru. Grant first appears in...
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  • Wanstead (1802 ship) (category Maritime incidents in July 1820)
    a license from the British East India Company (EIC). She was wrecked in 1820. Thomas Wilson received a letter of marque for Wanstead on 1 October 1805...
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    Callao affair (category 1820 in Peru)
    occurred in November 1820, during the Peruvian War of Independence. It began when a Spanish fort opened fire on the United States warship USS Macedonian. Though...
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  • windlass broke. Captain James Kay sailed Richmond from the Downs 25 June 1820, bound for St Helena and Bengal on a voyage as an "extra ship" for the EIC...
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  • Princess Charlotte (1819 brig) (category Maritime incidents in September 1820)
    Princess Charlotte was a 60-ton brig launched in 1819 that disappeared in 1820 on a voyage between Hobart Town and Sydney. The Government constructed Princess...
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  • Abeona (1811 ship) (category Ships of the 1820 settlers)
    at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1811. A fire at sea destroyed her in November 1820, killing many passengers and crew. Abeona appears in the 1812 Register of...
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    HMS Carron (1813) (category Maritime incidents in July 1820)
    1813 by Edward Adams, at Bucklers Hard in Hampshire. She was wrecked in 1820. Carron was first commissioned in January 1814 under Captain Robert Cavendish...
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    battle. The British captured the entire American force; the tender, USS Alligator, and five gunboats. The British lost 17 men killed and 77 wounded; Sophie's...
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