USS Congress

Five United States Navy ships have been named USS Congress, after the
legislature of the US.

   * The first Congress was a galley built on Lake Champlain, and that
     served as flagship in the Battle of Valcour Island.

   * The second Congress was a 28-gun sailing frigate (length 126 ft,
     breadth 34.9 ft, depth 10.5 ft) built by Lancaster Burling at
     Poughkeepsie, New York, under authority of an act of the Second
     Continental Congress dated 13 December 1775. One of the first 13 ships
     authorized to be built by the new government, she was placed under the
     command of Captain Grenell in the summer of 1776. Before her outfitting
     was completed, the British occupied the approaches to the Hudson River
     and extended their control of the environs throughout 1777. The infant
     Continental Navy suffered the destruction of Congress in October 1777
     to prevent her seizure by the enemy.

   * The third Congress was a 36-gun sailing frigate launched in 1799 and in
     service periodically until she was broken up in 1834.

   * The fourth Congress was a sailing frigate mounting 52 guns, launched in
     1841, active in the Mexican-American War, and destroyed by the ironclad
     CSS Virginia in 1862.

   * The fifth Congress was a screw sloop commissioned in 1870 and
     decommissioned 1876.

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