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USS Essex: General Characteristics

From Wikipedia.

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

Cost:  $139,362

Commissioned:  17 December 1799

Length:  138.7 feet

Beam:  37.3 feet

Armament (as an American warship, it was captured by the British)

Forty 32-pounder carronades

Six 12-pounder long guns

Captured by British:  28 March 1814

--Brock-Perry


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