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	USS Chesapeake
		The USS Chesapeake was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy.
		Chesapeake sailed from Norfolk 6 June 1800 to join the squadron patrolling off the southern coast of the United States and in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France.
		With the outbreak of the War of 1812, for which Chesapeake's encounter with Leopard was one of a number of emotional preparations, Chesapeake was outfitted at Boston for a lengthy Atlantic cruise.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Chesapeake.html (494 words)

	USS Adams (1799)
		The first USS Adams was a 28-gun (rated) sailing frigate of the United States Navy.
		She was laid down in 1797 at New York City by John Jackson[?] and William Sheffield[?] and launched on 8 June 1799.
		Commanded by Capt. Charles Morris[?], she was ready for action by the end of the year, but was bottled up in the Chesapeake Bay by blockading British warships until she finally managed to slip out to sea on 18 January 1814.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/us/USS_Adams_(1799).html (899 words)

	Chesapeake Resort
		Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary or bay whose entry to the Atlantic Ocean is between Norfolk, Virginia and Cape Charles, Virginia.
		The Battle of the Chesapeake was a crucial naval battle in the American Revolutionary War which occurred near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay on September 5 1781 between a British fleet led by Rear Admiral Thomas Graves and a French fleet led by Rear Admiral Comte de Grasse.
		''Chesapeake'' left her station at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in September 1965 when she was replaced by a large light station similar to an oil rig.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/36/chesapeake-resort.html (903 words)

	USS Chesapeake (1799) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The USS Chesapeake was a 36-gun sailing frigate of the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812.
		Chesapeake was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794.
		Chesapeake sailed from Norfolk, Virginia 6 June 1800 to join the squadron patrolling off the southern coast of the United States and in the West Indies during the Quasi-War with France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/USS_Chesapeake_(1799) (723 words)

	NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The USS Chesapeake was built at Gosport Navy Yard, now Norfolk Naval Shipyard, between December 1798 and December 1799.
		The CHESAPEAKE was attacked by the British LEOPARD off Cape Henry in 1807 which affair led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur, and was one of the causes leading to the War of 1812.
		The CHESAPEAKE was taken into the Royal Navy and, in 1820 broken up at Portsmouth, England, her timbers being used to build a flour mill at Wickham.
	www.nnsy1.navy.mil /History/CHESAPEA.HTM (175 words)

	Chesapeake
		The first Chesapeake, a 36-gun frigate, was launched 2 December 1799 by Gosport Navy Yard and commissioned early in the following year, Captain S. Barron in command.
		At Boston, Captain J. Lawrence took command of Chesapeake 20 May 1813, and on 1 June, put to sea to meet HMS Shannon (38), the crack frigate whose written challenge had just missed Chesapeake's sailing.
		The sloop Chesapeake was renamed Patapsco (q.v.) in 1799 while under construction.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/c7/chesapeake-i.htm (508 words)

	USS Chesapeake
		The Chesapeake's foresail being at this moment partly loose, owing to the weather clew-garnet having been shot away from the bitts, the American forged a little ahead, but was presently stopped, by hooking, with her quarter-port, the fluke of the Shannon's anchor stowed over the chess-tree.
		The CHESAPEAKE is a fine frigate, and mounts 49 guns, eighteens on her main-deck, two-and-thirties on her quarter deck and forecastle.Both ships came out of the action in the most beautiful order, their rigging appearing as perfect as if they had only being exchanging a salute.
		The figurehead of the Chesapeake, which was captured by the Shannon, was formerly on a summer house at the top of the garden-it was a bird, perhaps an eagle, and a portion of it was said to be part of a lamp bracket in the house.
	members.cox.net /shipkiller/data/frigate/chesapeake_frigate.html (6455 words)

	National Academic Quiz Tournaments, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Chesapeake was attacked by the British Leopard off Cape Henry in 1807 (which led to the duel between Commodores James Barron and Stephen Decatur), one of the causes of the War of 1812.
		USS Arizona (BB-39) [Pennsylvania class] A lead ship of the honor escort for President Wilson's trip to France in 1918, she was on Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor when Japanese aircraft appeared just before 8:00 am on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
		USS Missouri (BB-63) [Iowa class] The fourth USS Missouri was the last battleship completed by the United States; she was laid down January 6, 1941 by New York Naval Shipyard.
	www.naqt.com /YouGottaKnow/american-warships.html (969 words)

	PictureGallery
		USS Chesapeake inspired a wave of nationalism when she was forcibly boarded at sea in 1807 by British officers from the frigate HMS Leopard seeking to impress sailors into the British navy.
		Although other frigates similar to USS Chesapeake won a series of spectacular victories in naval engagements against British frigates in 1812, USS Chesapeake herself was captured in an engagement with the British frigate HMS Shannon in 1813.
		Battleships USS Pennsylvania and USS North Carolina, shown here with the smaller schooner USS Hornet, were the type of line-of-battle ships that nationalists like Calhoun, Clay, and Adams sought to fund as part of the expansion of the US Navy after the War of 1812.
	mason.gmu.edu /~bhuggins/picgallery.htm (1008 words)

	Biography - Captain James Barron
		The younger son of James Barron, a merchant captain who was appointed a Captain in, and later the Commodore of, the Virginia State Navy of the Revolution, and brother of Commodore Samuel Barron, who was born in 1763, and served in the US Navy from 1798 to 1810.
		Chesapeake sailed from Hampton Roads 22 June 1807, and soon after was boarded by an officer of the British Squadron lying near the Capes, who desired to search her for deserters from the British fleet, which Barron refused.
		Chesapeake fired only one gun before striking her colors, after which a British officer came on board and carried off four of her crew.
	www.history.navy.mil /bios/barronj.htm (2186 words)

	CHESAPEAKE'S TIMBERS NOW SERVE ENGLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Chesapeake, designed and built by Josiah Fox, a naturalized English shipbuilder, was constructed of live oak and cedar timbers from forests in the State of Georgia.
		After several delays, she was finally ``launched into her element'' on Dec. 30, 1799, ``in the presence of a great concourse of people.'' Even so, tragedy was present at the ceremony, for one of the workmen was killed.
		In closing his well-documented book ``The Chesapeake: A Biography of a Ship,'' the late Charles B. Cross, Jr., wrote: ``Most of her oaken beams, keel and planks, however, were utilized in the construction of a mill on the River Meon in the village of Wickham, near Southampton.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1996/vp960602/05310624.htm (703 words)

	USS Constitution Museum - FAQs - Sister Ships - USS Chesapeake
		During broadside action early in the battle, Chesapeake's rigging was cut away which caused the ship to lose maneuverability.
		Chesapeake was towed to Halifax and later served in the Royal Navy.
		Some of the timbers were used in the construction of a flour mill.
	www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org /faq/chesapeake.html (196 words)

	Leader-Captain Issac Chauncey of the American Navy
		Joining the navy in 1799, he was appointed 1st lieutenant of the frigate USS President and served in a number of other capacities.
		He participated in the Tripolitan War from 1802-05 as acting commander of the flagship USS Chesapeake and later as the commander of the frigates USS New Chesapeake and USS John Adams.
		Led by the brig USS Oneida, the construction of which Woolsey had supervised in 1808, this squadron had seized command of Lake Ontario from the ineffective Canadian Provincial Marine by November 1812.
	www.mywarof1812.com /leaders/chauncey_isaac.htm (1006 words)

	Chesapeake Mill - History
		In the Spring of 1813 Captain James Lawrence was appointed to command the USS Chesapeake, a 44 gun frigate built at Gosport, Virginia, in 1799.
		The battle damage to the Chesapeake was repaired in the dockyard at Halifax after which she was sailed to England.
		Although âChesapeakeâ Mill is unknown to the average tourist, it is frequently visited by Americans.
	www.chesapeakemill.co.uk /history.htm (2995 words)

	Courier NEWS: May 11, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Markings on the Georgia oak and pine timbers identify the boards as belonging to the USS Chesapeake, which was built at Gosport Navy Yard, now Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., between December 1798 and December 1799.
		The Chesapeake is the sister ship of the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") and the USS Constellation, and Flanders believes the mill may contain more original ship timber than either ship.
		The captured frigate was taken to England and recommissioned as the HMS Chesapeake.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/archive/vol30issue18/stories/preserve.html (333 words)

	The Mariners' Museum - Monitor: History and Legacy
		The conversion of the USS Merrimack to the CSS Virginia was completed at the Gosport Naval Shipyard in 1862.
		One of these frigates, the USS Chesapeake, was contracted to be laid down at Gosport.
		When launched, the Chesapeake became the first vessel of the United States Navy to be completed at the Gosport Naval Yard.
	www.mariner.org /monitor/03_earlydev/history_gosport.html (837 words)

	Historical Biographies, Nova Scotia, 1800-1867.
		Promoted rear-admiral in 1799 and vice-admiral in 1805, in 1806 he was named commander of the North American squadron, his first independent command." (DCB) Berkeley came to Halifax in July of 1806 to take up his duties.
		In 1808, after the "Chesapeake Incident" of 1807, Berkeley was sent to command the squadron on the coast of Portugal from 1808 to 1812.
		(He was defeated in the general election of 1799 by one of the reformers under the leadership of Tonge.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/BiosNS/1800-67/List.htm (4562 words)

	PORTSMOUTH PLAYED A BIG PART IN BIRTH OF OUR NATION'S NAVY
		After she was stopped by the HMS Leopard off the Virginia coast and searched for British deserters in 1807, the issue of impressment of American seamen into the Royal Navy became a rallying point throughout the nation.
		Later in the War of 1812, the Chesapeake was captured in battle by the HMS Shannon and taken to England, where she was broken up.
		Portsmouth, the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and historic Trophy Park - where the frigate USS Chesapeake was built - should have commanding roles in the 200th birthday celebration of the U.S. Navy in 1998.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970504/05030175.htm (987 words)

	History Corner
		Jun 8 USS LIBERTY, a merchant freighter converted to a communications intelligence platform, was attacked by Israeli aircraft and torpedo boats in international waters during the six-day Arab-Israeli War.
		Aug 2 USS MADDOX was attacked by North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.
		USS HORNET was sunk and the battleship USS SOUTH DAKOTA damaged during battle which safeguarded American forces on Guadalcanal.
	www.hiltonheaddlc.com /history_corner.htm (6942 words)

	Virginia Business Magazine: Gosport shipyard launched Hampton Roads shipbuilding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Gosport Navy Yard was expanded throughout the early 19th century, including the construction of the nation’s first dry dock in 1834.
		Despite attempts made by evacuating federal forces in April 1861 to destroy Gosport, the yard went on to serve the Confederacy and was the site of the conversion of the USS Merrimack to the ironclad CSS Virginia.
		In 1886, Collis P. Huntington, whose Chesapeake and Ohio Railway had built its eastern terminus at Newport News, established the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. In 1894 the yard received contracts to build three naval gunboats.
	www.virginiabusiness.com /magazine/yr2006/jun06/lookback.shtml (701 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Hampshire/Dorset \| Fight to save battleship mill
		The Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, Hampshire, is made from the timbers of the frigate USS Chesapeake - taken by HMS Shannon in 1813 when the US and Britain were last at war.
		The Chesapeake Action Group wants to open the building as a museum about the 1812 war and the mill's working life.
		The group's head, Dr Robert Prescott, from the University of St Andrews, said: "When you go inside there are deck beams holding up the ceiling, which are in terrific condition because they have been part of a building for nearly 180 years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/hampshire/dorset/3152616.stm (351 words)

	USS Constellation Association - Constellation's History
		Under the command of the legendary Captain Thomas Truxtun, it was the first battle by one of the original six frigates.
		Ironically, just as the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64) was beginning her 19th overseas deployment, the U.S. Sloop of War CONSTELLATION completed a $9-million restoration project in July 1999.
		The USS Constellation CVA/CV-64 Association along with the officers and crew of the CONSTELLATION on October 27th celebrated her 40 years of proud service to a grateful nation.
	www.ussconstellation.org /conniehistory.html (1907 words)

	HMS Leopard - Museum Quality Replica Ship
		The HMS Leopard was made famous in the Patrick O’Brien novel “Desolation Island”, where Captain Jack Aubrey was assigned to rescue Governor Bligh of the famed “Mutiny on the Bounty”.
		In history, the HMS Leopard, is best known for the “Chesapeake- Leopard” affair of 1807 (which many saw as a prelude to the War of 1812).
		Denying the request, the Commodore of the Chesapeake sent the boat back while secretly clearing the gun decks in preparation for battle.
	www.aurorahistoryboutique.com /GA00009.htm (337 words)

	1812 And All That
		USS President, for example, was lost after being disabled trying to leave New York, and USS Chesapeake was captured by HMS Shannon off Boston (some of its timbers are in the fabric of a pub in Ashford, Kent).
		Captain Joshua Barney USN had been given the charge to defend the Chesapeake with his Jeffersonian flotilla of gunboats, but had immediately run up the Patuxent as far as he could go and burnt his boats when he saw the British coming.
		Combined forces attacked on the Chesapeake, as we have seen, and attention was now directed to the Gulf Coast.
	www.du.edu /~jcalvert/hist/1812.htm (15972 words)

	Robert Prescott: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dr Robert Prescott, Director of the Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies and Caird Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Museum, was one of five researchers from across the UK shortlisted for the first ever 'Award for the Presentation of Heritage Research' for his analysis of timbers in a Hampshire water mill.
		Timbers from an 18th century American warship, the USS Chesapeake, were used to build Wickham Mill.
		By combining historical studies and picture research with an archaeological survey of the mill and its ship timbers, Dr Prescott revealed details about the USS Chesapeake's past, including her construction in 1799 using slave labour from the plantations.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Prescott_Robert_14661538.htm (438 words)

	‘What sailors REALLY run on’
		The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) as a combat vessel carried 48,600 gallons of fresh water for her crew of 475 officers and men.
		Her landing party captured a whisky distillery and transferred 40,000 gallons of single malt Scotch aboard by dawn.
		The U.S.S. Constitution arrived in Boston on 20 February, 1799, with no cannon shot, no food, no powder, no rum, no wine, no whisky and 38,600 gallons of stagnant water.
	www.duckworksmagazine.com /03/r/columns/magen/04/ron.htm (678 words)

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