Uss Franklin

• The first Franklin was a 6-gun schooner, fitted out in 1775 and returned to the owner in 1776.

• The second Franklin was a 8-gun brig built in 1795, captured by corsairs from Tripoli in 1802, bought back by the Navy in 1805, and sold in 1807.

• The third Franklin was a 74-gun ship of the line launched in 1815 and broken up in 1852.

• The fourth Franklin was a screw frigate launched in 1864 and in active service until 1877, thereafter used as a receiving ship until 1915.

• The fifth Franklin (CV-13) was an aircraft carrier commissioned in 1944 and crippled by bombs in March 1945, later repaired but remaining in reserve until decommissioning in 1964.

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