USS New York (1800)
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 United States
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| Name: | USS New York |
| Builder: | Peck and Carpenter |
| Cost: | $159,639 |
| Laid down: | August 1798 |
| Launched: | 24 April 1800 |
| Commissioned: | October 1800 |
| Fate: | Burned, 24 August 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | New York-class frigate |
| Tonnage: | 1130 |
| Length: | 145 ft 5 in (44.32 m) |
| Beam: | 38 ft 1 in (11.61 m) |
| Draft: | 11 ft 9 in (3.58 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Complement: | 340 officers and enlisted |
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USS New York was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate in the United States Navy that saw service during the Quasi-War with France.
New York was built by public subscription by the citizens of New York for the United States Government; laid down in August 1798 by Peck and Carpenter, New York City; launched 24 April 1800; and commissioned in October 1800, Captain Richard Valentine Morris in command.
The New York was one of the group of five frigates built by the States for the Federal Government to supplement the original six provided for by the Naval Act of 1794, 'The ship entered the Navy when the Quasi-War with France was being fought in the Atlantic and Caribbean oceans where French warships preyed on American shipping interests.
The New York departed New York on 22 October 1800, and sailed for the Caribbean, convoying the brig Amazon and her cargo to Martinique and then sailing to St. Kitts, arriving on 6 December to meet the frigate USS President there and receive orders. Putting to sea the next day, New York cruised the waters near Guadaloupe on patrol protecting U.S. merchant ships until forced to return to St. Kitts on 31 December by a bad outbreak of fever among her crew. The frigate remained in the West Indies port, putting the forty sickest men ashore and recruiting others to replace them until sailing in mid-January 1801 to resume station on watchful patrol against those French ships, both naval vessels and privateers, which had been attacking Yankee merchant ships trading with the British West Indies.
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