USS Plymouth (1844)
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| Name: | USS Plymouth |
| Namesake: | Plymouth, Massachusetts |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 16 June 1843 |
| Launched: | 11 October 1843 |
| In service: | circa 3 April 1844 |
| Out of service: | 20 April 1861 |
| Fate: | Scuttled to prevent capture, 20 April 1861 |
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| Name: | CSS Plymouth |
| In service: | 23 June 1861 |
| Homeport: | Gosport Navy Yard |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sloop of War |
| Displacement: | 989 tons |
| Length: | 147 ft 6 in (44.96 m) (lbp) |
| Beam: | 38 ft 1 in (11.61 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sail |
| Sail plan: | Ship-Rigged |
| Speed: | not known |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
1x Launch, 2x Cutters, 2x Quarterboats, 1x Stern boat |
| Complement: | 210 |
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USS Plymouth was a sloop-of-war constructed and commissioned just prior to the Mexican-American War. She was heavily gunned, and traveled to Japan as part of Commodore Matthew C. Perry’s effort to force Japan to open her ports to international trade. She also served in European and Caribbean waters and, later in her career, she was used to train midshipmen.
Plymouth was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for Plymouth, Massachusetts, a town on Plymouth Bay, about 35 mi (56 km) southeast of Boston, Massachusetts. Plymouth was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620.
Built by the Boston Navy Yard, she departed Boston, Massachusetts, on 3 April 1844 for the Mediterranean Sea, Commander Henry Henry in command.
After over a year in European waters, she sailed westward and arrived at New York City on 4 October 1846.
Following service on the U.S. East Coast, Plymouth departed New York City, 13 February 1848, for the Far East, returning to Norfolk, Virginia, from the East Indies on 29 January 1851. On 23 August 1851 she stood out from Hampton Roads, Virginia, bound once again for the Orient.
After duty on the East India Squadron, she joined Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to Japan, entering Edo Bay on 8 July 1853 and departing on 17 July. She returned in February of the following year and before heading home put into Shanghai where she sent a party ashore to support a coordinated British-American expedition against hostile forts in the area.
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