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The first USSEssex of the United States Navy was a sailing frigate that participated in the Quasi-War with France, the Barbary Wars, and in the War of 1812, during which she was captured by the British (1814).
Essex sailed in South Atlantic waters and along the coast of Brazil until January 1813 when Captain Porter undertook the decimation of English whale fisheries in the Pacific.
Essex was repaired and taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Essex, and in 1833 served as a prison ship at Kingston, Ireland.
Essex in TG 58.2 now joined with TG 58.1 and 58.3 to constitute the mostformidable carrier striking force to date, in launching an attack againstTruk (17 18 February) during which eight Japanese ships were sunk.
During the remainder of the war she operated with TF 58, conducting attacksagainst the Tokyo area (16-17, and 25 February) both to neutralize the enemy'sairpower before the landings on Iwo Jima and to cripple the aircraft manufacturingindustry.
Essex joined with the 2d Fleet and British ships in Atlantic exercisesand with NATO forces in the eastern Mediterranean during the fall of 1959.In December she aided victims of a disastrous flood at Frejus, France.
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