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	USS Alfred (1774) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		USS Alfred was a man-of-war in the Continental Navy of the United States.
		Sometime in December 1775, the Alfred became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag was hoisted by John Paul Jones.
		Alfred was inactive through the summer for a number of reasons, but high on the list of her problems were want of funds and a shortage of men.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Alfred_(1775) (1458 words)

	USS Alexandria
		F earing that American commerce would soon be interrupted her owners were eager to export another cargo to England, so they again raced to load and provision her.
		At the outset of the fray, fire from her cannon cut Alfred's tiller ropes, leaving Hopkins'flagship unable to maneuver or to pursue effectively.
		She was purchased and taken into the Royal Navy as H. armed ship Alfred (20 guns) and was sold in 1782.
	www.multied.com /navy/Brigatines/Alfred.html (1348 words)

	USS Alfred (1774) - TheBestLinks.com - USS Alfred (1775), Africa, April 4, April 6, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		USS Alfred (1774) - TheBestLinks.com - USS Alfred (1775), Africa, April 4, April 6,...
		USS Alfred (1775), USS Alfred (1774), Africa, April 4, April 6, August 22...
		There they took three prizes: on the 11th, the brigantine Active, bound from Liverpool to Halifax with an assorted cargo, the next day, the armed transport Mellish, laden with winter uniforms for British troops at Quebec; and, on the 16th, the snow Kitty, bound from Gaspe to Barbados with oil and fish.
	www.thebestlinks.com /USS_Alfred___28__1775__29__.html (1434 words)

	USS Reagan commissioned - The Washington Times: Metropolitan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With a crew of about 6,000 sailors, including air-wing personnel, the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) will be homeported in San Diego as a member of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
		The tradition of christening and commissioning Navy ships began in 1775 with the USS Alfred.
		The USS Harry S. Truman had been the last carrier christened at the shipyard on Sept. 7, 1996.
	www.washtimes.com /metro/20030712-104229-9610r.htm (960 words)

	Crew of "USS Tecumseh" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Canonicus class armored monitor, USS Tecumseh, was commissioned April 19, 1864, and spent her short life in the North Atlantic, and then the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
		James Burnes, ordinary seaman; transferred from receiving ship, USS North Carolina, April, 1864; shown in a separate account as being one of those who were saved from drowning, at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, by a boat's crew of the USS Metacomet.
		George C. Overton, saved himself, after the sinking of the USS Tecumseh at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, by swimming ashore to Fort Morgan; captured by the Confederates and sent to Andersonville, Georgia, August 21, 1864; this may be the same person listed in the next entry.
	home.ozconnect.net /tfoen/tecumseh.htm (2546 words)

	John Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In June 1775, with a view to promoting the union of the colonies, he nominated George Washington as commander-in-chief of the army.
		On October 5, 1775, Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matters.
		From that time onward, Adams championed the establishment and strengthening of an American Navy and is often referred to as the father of the United States Navy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Adams (3610 words)

	USS Raleigh (1776) - TheBestLinks.com - Africa, Atlantic Ocean, American Revolutionary War, August 12, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hackett, Hill, and Paul at Portsmouth, N.H., under the supervision of Thomas Thompson, was authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775 and the keel was laid on March 21, 1776 and launched on May 21, 1776.
		On March 9, 1778, in the Lesser Antilles; Alfred, some distance from Raleigh, was captured by the British ships HBMS Ariadne and HBMS Ceres.
		Raleigh, unable to reach Alfred in time to assist her, continued north and returned to New England early in April 1778.
	www.thebestlinks.com /USS_Raleigh___28__1776__29__.html (731 words)

	USS Biddle (CG 34)
		USS BIDDLE was the ninth and last ship in the BELKNAP - class of guided missile cruisers and the fourth ship in the Navy to bear the name.
		USS BIDDLE and the USS RALEIGH (LPD 1) are slightly damaged when the BIDDLE strikes the moored RALEIGH while approaching a pier in Norfolk, Va.
		In December 1775, Captain Biddle took command of the 14-gun brig ANDREW DORIA and joined the fleet commanded by Esek Hopkins in the expedition against New Providence.
	navysite.de /cg/cg34.htm (489 words)

	Today In History: 1775 1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
		Alfred (formerly the Black Prince) commissioned in 1775.
		After receiving the USS Alfred, the Continental fleet consisted of six ships under the command of Admiral Esek Hopkins, the first Commodore and only Commander-In-Chief the US Navy ever had.
		There they took three prizes: on the 11th, the brigantine Active, bound from Liverpool to Halifax with an assorted cargo, the next day, the armed transport Mellish, laden with winter uniforms for British troops at Quebec; and, on the 16th, the snow Kitty, bound from Gaspé; to Barbados with oil and fish.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1533294/posts (1949 words)

	Revolutionary War Campaigns: Captain John Paul Jones of the Continental Navy
		On November 1, 1777, he sailed in the sloop-of-war USS Ranger for France with dispatches for the American commissioners, announcing the surrender of Gen. John Burgoyne and asking that Jones should be supplied with a swift frigate for harassing the coasts of England.
		A few days later, he surprised the garrisons of the 2 forts commanding the harbour of Whitehaven, a port with which he was familiar from boyhood, spiked the guns and made an unsuccessful attempt to fire the shipping.
		His flagship, the USS Duras, a re-fitted East Indiaman, was re-named by him the USS Bonhomme Richard, as a compliment to Benjamin Franklin, whose "Poor Richard's Almanac" was then popular in France.
	www.myrevolutionarywar.com /campaigns/jones_john.htm (1174 words)

	The Brighter Side of History - December 22
		On December 3, the USS Alfred, USS Andrew USS Doria, USS Cabot, and USS Columbus.
		On December 22, 1775, Esek Hopkins was appointed the naval commander-in-chief, and officers of the navy were commissioned (including First Lieutenant John Paul Jones).
		With this small fleet, complemented by the USS Providence, and USS Wasp, Hopkins led the first major Naval action of the Continental Navy, in early March 1776.
	www.amug.org /~jpaul/dec22.html (2289 words)

	USS Constitution Museum - Museum Store - Books
		This is the third revised edition of a very important work by a well-respected naval historian, published in 2002.
		If there is one authoritative and concise history of the US Navy from the Continental Navy of 1775 through to Desert Storm, it is this book by a noted author of several books including a seminal work about the Revolutionary Navy.
		This latest edition of “The United States Marines”, published in 2003, reflects the latest scholarship on the USMC from inception in 1775 through 2000.
	www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org /shop/bkc6.html (1125 words)

	USS Raleigh
		Hackett, Hill, and Paul at Portsmouth, N.H., under the supervision of Thomas Thompson, was authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775; laid down on 21 March 1776; and launched on 21 May 1776.
		Raleigh, unable to reach Alfred in time to assist her, continued north and returned to New England early in April.
		Accused of cowardice and dereliction of duty in not aiding Alfred, Thompson was suspended soon after reaching port.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/raleigh_frigate.html (709 words)

	John_paul_jones info here at en.35of100d.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		During this time, around 1775, the Navy and Marines were being formaIly established, and suitable commanders were in great demand.
		Jonesâ first assignment was aboard the frigate USS Alfred (30 guns, 300 men) saiIing from the DeIaware River in February 1776 to attack British merchant vesseIs in New Providence.
		The Alfred was one of six vesseIs, the frigate herseIf commanded by Commodore Esek Hopkins, the Navyâs Commander-in-Chief.
	en.35of100d.info /John_Paul_Jones (3038 words)

	USS Providence I
		From early 1775 British men-of-war, espeeia}ly His Majesty's Frigate Ro$e, preyed on Rhode Island shipping and annoyed the colony's coast.
		While Providence was at home, Hopkins appointed Jones Commander of Alfred, a larger ship and the Commander in Chief's flagship on the expedition to the Bahamas.
		She was destroyed by her crew, with other American vessels in the Penobseot River, 14 August 1779, to prevent her falling into the hands of the British.
	www.multied.com /NAVY/MISC/providence.html (1350 words)

	Help.com - john paul jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With help from influential members of the Continental Congress however, Jones was the first man to be assigned to the rank of 1st Lieutenant in the Continental Navy on December 22, 1775, on board the Alfred.
		Jones’ first assignment was aboard the frigate USS Alfred (30 guns, 300 men) sailing from the Delaware River in February 1776 to attack British merchant vessels in New Providence.
		USS John Paul Jones and USS Paul Jones are ships named in his honor.
	help.com /wiki/John_Paul_Jones (2928 words)

	BMR Chapter 5
		As the skipper of the USS Ranger he left France on April 10.
		After a furious battle the USS Bonhomme Richard was on fire and was taking on water.
		The USS Constitution is still in commission today and can be seen at the Boston Navy Yard.
	advancement1.tripod.com /bmrch5.html (1042 words)

	Outlaw Valley - Thomas Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The frigate USS Raleigh, was one of thirteen ships that the Continental Congressauthorized for the US Navy in 1775The USS Raleigh, a frigate built by Messrs.
		In the ensuing battle she damaged Druid, but the approach of the remaining British escorts forced her to retire.On December 29, 1777; Raleigh and Alfred having taken on military stores,set sail from LOrient, France.
		Raleigh, unable to reach Alfredin time to assist her, continued north and returned to New England early inApril 1778.Accused of cowardice and dereliction of duty for not aiding Alfred, Captain Thompson was suspended soon after reaching port.
	isbnfinder.com /936357_thomas-thompson_0816154058bitterwaterbookando... (770 words)

	Common Ground Common Sense > Military Articles and Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		USS Cabot and Alfred vs. HMS Glasglow, 6 April 1776.
		On November 28, 1775, 31 year old Captain Samuel Nicholas was commissioned as the first officer of the Corps.
		The USS Potomiac, disguised as a merchant man, was dispatched on a punitive raid.
	commongroundcommonsense.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t30255.html (16993 words)

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		This marked the first time the stars and stripes were officially recognized.In 1779, John Paul Jones took command of an old decaying merchant ship that was renamed the USS Bonhomme Richard (honoring Benjamin Franklin).It carried 42 relatively light guns, some of which were in rather poor condition.
		On Sept. 23, 1779, Jones met the British warship Serapis(50 Guns)After a furious battle the USS Bonhomme Richard was on fire and was taking on water.
		• In the Civil War, the USS Hunley attacked the USS Housatonic, marking the first true submarine attack (they both went down) • The Civil War saw the development of two famed ironclads: The USS Merrimack(renamed the CSS Virginia by the Confederacy) and the Union’s USS Monitor.
	www.navystorekeeper.com /14325_E4_ACTIVE.doc (7487 words)

	NewStandard: 6/2/99
		The question of what to do with this unique piece of history has plagued Fairhaven since the cannon's arrival in 1775 from New London, Conn. -- the No. 1 one naval stronghold in America during the Revolutionary War.
		The cannon was originally captured in battle in February 1774 when the ship USS Alfred, with John Paul Jones as a junior officer, attacked a British fort in Nassau.
		Fort Phoenix received the Connecticut cannon and several from Boston but Capt. Nathaniel Pope took the cannon to where Union Wharf now stands when the British landed in New Bedford on Sept. 6.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-99/06-02-99/c03lo116.htm (359 words)

	USS Hornet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first Hornet was a merchant sloop chartered from Captain William Stone in December 1775 to serve under Stone as a unit of Esek Hopkins' Fleet.
		Hornet fitted out at Baltimore, then sailed on 18 February 1776 Sailed in a squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins, flying his flag in ALFRED, to capture British gunpowder at New Providence, the Bahamas.
		Running afoul of FLY, she was forced back to the Delaware.Outside the Virginia Capes, and was unable to accompany the fleet for the amphibious assault on New Providence.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/hornet_sow.html (286 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/Museums/Old State Capitol/This Month in History-DECEMBER
		1775- The first official U.S. flag raising (aboard the USS Alfred).
		1941- The U.S.S. Swordfish becomes the first U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship.
		1894 - French officer Alfred Dreyfus is court-martialed for treason, which triggers worldwide charges of anti- Semitism (Dreyfus is later vindicated).
	www.sos.louisiana.gov /museums/osc/month/day-dec.htm (2491 words)

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		His 1697 writing, Christian Perfection, provided a reasoned defence of mystical spirituality, though it later brought him into disfavour with the pope.
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		Alfred was the first member of Britain’s royal family to visit Australia, was shot by Irish-Australian Henry James O'Farrell, at
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/aug6.html (3919 words)

	USS SANTA MARIA*******SHIP OF TRUTH
		To provide for the display of the first navy Jack on board all U. Navy ships during the Global War on Terrorism.
		As the first ships of the Continental Navy readied in the Delaware River during the fall of 1775, Commodore Esek Hopkins issued a set of fleet signals.
		His signal for the "whole Fleet to Engage" the enemy provided for the "strip'd Jack and Ensign at their proper places." Thus, from the very beginning of our Navy, the Jack has been used on board American warships.
	cartwilliams.blogspot.com /2003_05_01_cartwilliams_archive.html (12181 words)

	DANFS: USS Nicholas (DD-449)
		Samuel Nicholas was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1744 and received his commission as Captain of Marines from the Continental Congress 28 November 1775, the earliest existing commission issued in the Continental Naval Service.
		he joined Continental Ship Alfred as Marine Officer at her commissioning 3 December.
		Transcribed and formatted for HTML by Patrick Clancey (patrick@akamail.com)
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/DD/dd449.html (2107 words)

	Historical People and Events for December - History Celebrities
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		The crew of the "USS Pueblo" was released, 1968
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1224.html (1966 words)

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