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Baltimore (I)

Brigantine:
  • Built in 1777 at Baltimore by order of the of the Marine Committee of the Continental Congress
  • Baltimore was designed to service as a packet or despatch vessel
  • Commissioned Baltimore, date unknown, CAPT. Thomas Read in command
  • Few details of Baltimore's service are available
  • Besides despatch service it is believed she also participated in the defense of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays in 1778 and 1779
  • Baltimore was reported lost off Cape Henry, 29 January 1780
    Specifications:
    Displacement unknown
    Length unknown
    Beam unknown
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament twelve guns
    Propulsion sail
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