Monday, February 24, 2020
USS Congress Stats-- Part 3
From Wikipedia.
Namesake: The United States Congress
Ordered 27 March 1794
Builder: James Hackett
Cost: $197,245
Laid Down: 1795
Launched: 15 August 1799
Maiden Voyage: January 6, 1800
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Type: 38-gun frigate
Displacement: 1,265 tons
Length: 164 feet
Beam: 41 feet
Depth of Hold: 13 feet
Decks: 4 (Orlop, Berth, Gun, Spar)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 340 officers and enlisted
Armament:
1799
28 Eighteen Pounders and 12 Nine Pounders
1812
24 Eighteen Pounders and 20 Thirty-Two Pounders (carronade)
--Brock-Perry
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