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Name | USS Alligator |
Builder | Boston Navy Yard |
Laid down | 26 June 1820 |
Launched | 2 November 1820 |
Commissioned | March 1821 |
Fate | Wrecked, 23 November 1822 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Schooner |
Tonnage | 198 |
Length | 86 ft (26 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 7 in (7.49 m) |
Depth | 10 ft 4 in (3.15 m) |
Propulsion | Sail |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) |
Armament | 12 × 6-pounder guns |
The third USS Alligator was a schooner in the United States Navy.
Alligator was laid down on 26 June 1820 by the Boston Navy Yard; launched on 2 November 1820; and commissioned in March 1821 – probably on the 26th – with Lieutenant Robert F. Stockton in command. On 6 June 1996, the site of her wreck was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.