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USS Philadelphia is a gunboat (referred to in contemporary documents as a gundalow or gondola) of the Continental Navy. She was constructed from July–August 1776 for service during the American Revolutionary War .
A model of the USS Philadelphia (1776), sunk in the Battle of Valcour Island. A gundalow (also known in period accounts as a "gondola") is a type of flat-bottomed sailing barge once common in Maine and New Hampshire rivers, United States. It first appeared in the mid-1600s, reached maturity of design in the 1700 and 1800s, and lingered into the ...
USS Philadelphia (1799) was a 36-gun sailing frigate active in the Quasi-War, captured in the First Barbary War and later burned; USS Philadelphia (1861) was a side-wheel steamer used during the American Civil War, commanded by Samuel Phillips Lee; USS Philadelphia (C-4) was a protected cruiser commissioned in 1890 and in service until 1926
Initially called "Gunboat No. 1", Von der Tann was the most modern ship in the navy. She participated successfully in the First Schleswig War of 1848–1851. Britain built a large number of wooden screw-gunboats during the 1850s, some of which participated in the Crimean War (1853–1856), Second Opium War (1856–1860) and Indian Mutiny (1857 ...
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
How a 173-year-old law created for wooden ships could complicate rebuilding the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore María Soledad Davila Calero March 28, 2024 at 12:52 PM