USS Chesapeake
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Five ships of the United States Navy have been named Chesapeake after Chesapeake Bay, the body of water along Maryland and Virginia.
- The USS Chesapeake, a 36 gun frigate, was launched on 2 December 1799 by Gosport Navy Yard and commissioned early in the following year.
- The sloop USS Chesapeake was renamed USS Patapsco in 1799 while still under construction.
- The USS Chesapeake, a training ship, was renamed Severn on 15 June 1905.
- The USS Chesapeake (ID-3395), a freighter, was launched in 1900 by Harlan and Hollingsworth in Wilmington, Delaware and purchased by the US Navy on 31 August 1918.
- The USS Chesapeake (AOT-5084)
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- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
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