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USSUnitedStates was a frigate in the UnitedStates Navy in 1797.
UnitedStates was the first of six frigates completed under authority of the Naval Act of 1794 passed by Congress on 27 March 1794, and was designed by naval architect Joshua Humphreys and Captain Thomas Truxtun.
UnitedStates was the first American warship to be launched under the naval provisions of the UnitedStates Constitution, four months before the launching of her sister ship Constellation at Baltimore, Maryland, and five and one-half months before that of Constitution at Boston, Massachusetts.
Four ships of the UnitedStates Navy have bore the name USSUnitedStates in honor of that nation, but only one of them was launched, and it became part of the Confederate Navy.
The second USSUnitedStates (CC-6), a Lexington-class battlecruiser, was cancelled and scrapped when the vessel was only 12.1 percent complete.
The third USSUnitedStates (CVA-58) was to be an aircraft carrier of radically new design, but was cancelled five days after her keel was laid down.
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