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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    USS Peacock, two brigs, USS Spark and USS Enterprise, the schooners USS Grampus, USS Alligator, USS Shark and USS Porpoise. Two gunboats, No. 158 and No...
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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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  • Calcutta on 23 September. Homeward bound, she passed Kedgeree on 1 January 1820. She then reached the Cape of Good Hope on 3 March and St Helena on 5 April...
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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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  • 19 Nov: USS Alligator 14 Dec: HMS Racehorse 17 Dec: Lord Wellington Unknown date: Ceres Other incidents 3 Mar: Ajax 20 Mar: Heroína 16 Aug: USS Grampus...
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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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    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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  • 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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    single sailor with a gravestone: HMS Vernon (1808); HMS Mersey (1820); HMS Alligator (1827); HMS Columbus (1837); HBM Sloop Pilot (1841); HMS Sydenham...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    known for creating the inimitable Nimrod Wildfire, the "half horse, half alligator" in The Lion of the West (1831), and as collaborator with William Irving...
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