![]() U.S.S. Brandywine off Malta, November 6, 1831
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Name | USS Brandywine |
Namesake | Battle of Brandywine |
Ordered | as Susquehanna |
Builder | Washington Navy Yard |
Laid down | September 20, 1821 |
Launched | June 16, 1825 |
Commissioned | August 25, 1825 |
Out of service | September 3, 1864 |
Stricken | 1867 (est.) |
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Type | frigate |
Tonnage | 1708 |
Length | 175 ft (53 m)(between perpendiculars) |
Beam | 45 ft (14 m) |
Draft | 22 ft 4 in (6.81 m) |
Depth of hold | 14 ft 5 in (4.39 m) |
Propulsion | Frigate sail |
Speed | 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h) |
Complement | 480 officers and enlisted |
Armament |
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USS Brandywine (formerly named Susquehanna) was a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy bearing 44 guns which had the initial task of conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France. She was later recommissioned a number of times for service in various theaters, such as in the Mediterranean, in China and in the South Atlantic Ocean.
During several instances she served as a role player in American gunboat diplomacy, a role she was well suited for with her large long-range 32-pounder guns and her short-range carronades which produced fragmentation and fire damage to the ship fired upon, as well as splinter and shrapnel injury to its crew.