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USS Chippewa (II)

Brig:
  • built in 1815 at Warren, R.I., under the direction of Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and sent to New York to be outfitted and manned
  • USS Chippewa, LT. George C. Read in command
  • Chippewa sailed from Boston, 3 July 1815, as a part of a squadron under the command of Commodore William Bainbridge
  • Departed for home 6 October 1815. Upon arrival at Boston, Chippewa was placed in ordinary
  • Re-activated in November 1816,
  • USS Chippewa sailed from Boston 27 November 1816 for the Gulf of Mexico
  • Final Disposition, ran aground on an uncharted reef in the Bahama Islands and sank 12 December 1816 without loss of life
  • Chippewa was found by a NOAA-supported expedition searching with representatives of Turks & Caicos Islands seeking the Trouvadore, a Spanish slave ship that wrecked in 1841 in the same area. They had found wreckage of a wooden ship in 2004, and 2008. The Chippewa wreck was identified by her unique 32-pdr carronade armament
    Specifications:
    Displacement 410 t.
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth 16' 6"
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament
    fourteen 32-pdr carronades
    two 12-pdrs
    Propulsion sail
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    Chippewa II 174k Sail plan of the brig USS Chippewa (II).
    Scanned from Chappelle, Howard I., "The History of the American Sailing Navy: The Ships and Their Development", New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1949, unattributed, probably from the US National Archives    		 Robert Hurst
    Macedonian
    098654913    		 112k Print by George G.Smith (1795-1878) engraver George Girdler Smith of the United States squadron under Com. Bainbridge returning triumphant from the Mediterranean in 1815, The print shows the American squadron at sea, includes, on the left;
    USS Macedonian (I),
    USS Firefly (I),
    USS Torch,
    USS Boxer (I), at center,
    USS Independence,
    USS USS Spark (I),
    USS Saranac (I),
    USS Enterprise (III),
    USS Lynx (I),     and on the right,
    USS Congress (III),
    USS Chippewa (II),
    USS Spitfire (III) and
    USS Flambeau.
    United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3a47975    		 Robert Hurst
    USS Chippewa (II)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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