This is a model of the first USS Intrepid. It was a Tripolitan vessel (the Mastico) taken during the Barbary Wars by Stephen Decatur and used in a raid to destroy the captured US frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. Previously it had been used as a bomb vessel […]
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This is a model of a typical Greek bireme, as would have been used in the successful battle of Salamis against the Persian invading fleet in 480 BC.
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During the Third Anglo-Dutch War, Prince served as a flagship of the Lord High Admiral the Duke of York (later James II & VII.) During the Battle of Solebay (1672) she was in the center of the English fleet that was attacked by the Dutch center led by Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
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Pegasus was a Swan-class sloop-of-war launched in 1776. She was lost with all hands during a storm off Newfoundland in October 1777.
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Unnamed vessel representative of the mid-18th century American privateers
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Fair American was a American privateer in the War for Independence.
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The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s replica of the gunboat Philadelphia (referred to in contemporary documents as a gundalow or gondola) of the Continental Navy. Manned by Continental Army soldiers, she was part of a fleet under the command of General Benedict Arnold that fought the 11 October 1776 Battle of Valcour Island against a larger [glossary_exclude]Royal[/glossary_exclude] Navy fleet on Lake Champlain. Although many of the American boats in the battle were damaged, Philadelphia was one of the few that actually sank that day. On the days following the main battle, most of the other boats in the American fleet were sunk, burned, or captured. She is one of a few such vessels used during the American Revolutionary War to be raised.
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