HMS Belvidera (1809)
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HMS Belvidera was a 36-gun Apollo-class frigate of the Royal Navy built in Deptford Dockyard in 1809. She saw action in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and continued a busy career at sea into
Belvidera (left) battling and USS President on 23 August 1812
USS Congress (1799)
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USS Congress was a three-masted heavy frigate, one of the first six ships of the newly created US Navy. Built by James Hackett at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, she was launched on 15 August 1799 and
HMS Belvidera (1809)
…station in Nova Scotia. Belvidera took part in one of the earliest actions of the War of 1812 when she encountered the American frigates USS President, USS Congress and USS United States on 23 June 1812, five days after the war had started. Belvidera had been shadowing Marengo, an American privateer captained by…
Congress by Charles Ware, 1816
John Rodgers ca. 1814
Congress at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard for the launch of the USS Washington, on 1 October 1814
Congress as a part of the United States Mediterranean squadron of 1815 (Second Barbary War)