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  USS Philadelphia (1799) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
The second USS Philadelphia of the (The navy of the United States of America; maintains and trains and equips combat-ready naval forces) United States Navy was a 28 gun (Click link for more info and facts about sailing frigate) sailing frigate.
Philadelphia was directed to cruise the Straits and blockade the coast of (A port city and commerical center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea) Tripoli, the Bashaw having threatened to make war on the United States (the (Click link for more info and facts about First Barbary War) First Barbary War).
Philadelphia was boarded 16 February 1804 and burned where she lay in Tripoli Harbor with her guns pointed outward, by a volunteer party of officers and men under Lt. (Click link for more info and facts about Stephen Decatur, Jr.) Stephen Decatur, Jr.
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 Encyclopedia: USS Philadelphia (1799)
The second USS Philadelphia of the United States Navy was a 28 gun sailing frigate.
Burning of the frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli, February 16, 1804, by Edward Moran, painted 1897.
Philadelphia was boarded 16 February 1804 and burned where she lay in Tripoli Harbor with her guns pointed outward, by a volunteer party of officers and men under Lt. Stephen Decatur, Jr.
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However, on February 15, 1898, while docked in Havana harbor, the USS Maine was rocked by a tremendous explosion, which sent the ship and 260 United States sailors to their doom.
Recently, in an effort to save the USS OLYMPIA, she was placed under the control of the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, PA. The museum is located adjacent to the vessel at Penn’s Landing.
Similar to the USS Maine plates, with a picture of William McKinley (the United States President at the time of the Spanish-American War) in the center, and the phrase “Protection and Plenty”.
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 philadelphia.ca - Philadelphia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
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 ipedia.com: USS Philadelphia Article
The first Philadelphia was a gondola built in 1776 on Lake Champlain by Benedict Arn...
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 Timeline 1800-1810
Latrobe was chiefly responsible for introducing the Greek Revival in the U.S. His Bank of Pennsylvania building in Philadelphia was the first Greek building in the country and was characteristic of his free adaptation of ancient precedent and vaulted construction.
Decatur and 76 volunteers, aboard the captured Intrepid, attempted to recapture the Philadelphia, which caught fire, exploded and sank.
1804 Sep 5, In a daring night raid, American sailors under Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, boarded the captured USS Philadelphia and burned the ship to keep it out of the hands of the Barbary pirates who captured her.
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