Archive for 29 July 2019

USS North Carolina Model Tall Ship 37′

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One of the “nine ships to rate not less than 74 guns each” authorized by Congress on 29 April 1816, she was laid down in 1818 by the Philadelphia Navy Yard, launched on 7 September 1820, and fitted out in the Norfolk Navy Yard. Master Commandant Charles W. Morgan was assigned to North Carolina as… (read more)