Chapter XLI: Appendix: B

AMERICAN NAVY AND ITS CAREER.

The original organization of the American Navy is noticed on pages 59–60 of the text.

On the thirteenth of December, 1775, several frigates, were authorized, the annexed figures indicating their _rate_, by _guns_:

_Alliance_ (32), twice identified with Lafayette (pp. 253, 361), and
sold after the war.
_Andrea Doria_ (32), burned in the Delaware to prevent capture 1777

_Boston_ (28), captured at Charleston 1780

[8]_CONGRESS_, burned in the Hudson, to prevent capture 1777

_Delaware_ (24), captured by the British, in the Delaware 1777

_Effingham_ (28), destroyed by the British, in the Delaware 1777

_Hancock_ (32), taken by British ships _Rainbow_ (44) and _Victor_
(16) 1777

[8]_Montgomery_ (24), burned in the Hudson to prevent capture 1777

_Providence_ (28), captured at Charleston 1780

_Queen of France_ (18), captured at Charleston 1780

_Raleigh_ (32), captured by the British ships _Experiment_ (50)
and _Unicorn_ (16) 1777

_Randolph_ (32), blown up in action with the _Yarmouth_ (64) 1778

_The Confederacy_ (32), taken by a British ship-of-the-line, off
the Virginia coast 1781

_Trumbull_ (28), taken by British fleet, near Cape Henry 1778

_Virginia_ (28), taken by British fleet, near Cape Henry, 1778

_Warren_ (32), burned in the Penobscot, by the Americans 1779

_Washington_ (32), destroyed by the British, in the Delaware 1778

Footnote 8:

Never went to sea.

NOTE.—John Paul, who took the name of John Paul Jones through
gratitude to a citizen of North Carolina who assisted him in securing
a naval commission (noticed on page 60 of the text), distinguished
himself upon the British coast, and in his capture of the British ship
_Serapis_, Sept. 23, 1779. His own ship, the _Bon Homme Richard_, was
fitted out in France, by the aid of Benjamin Franklin, to war against
British commerce. Franklin, in the issue of his “Almanack,” with
shrewd business and moral maxims at the bottoms of the pages, used the
nom-de-plume, “Poor Richard.” It was graceful in John Paul to name the
ship Richard, in Franklin’s honor, with a complimentary prefix.

Of the later navy, that of 1812, the _Brandywine_ (44), named after
the battle of that name, was placed at the service of Lafayette when
he visited America in 1825. (See note at end of Chapter XVIII.,
concerning Lafayette as first appearing in that battle.)