10 Facts About USS Brandywine

USS Brandywine was a wooden-hulled, three-masted frigate of the United States Navy bearing 44 guns which had the initial task of conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France.

USS Brandywine's was later recommissioned a number of times for service in various theaters, such as in the Mediterranean, in China and in the South Atlantic Ocean.

USS Brandywine left Le Havre that same day to join the United States' Mediterranean Squadron.

USS Brandywine's carried a relief crew for the schooner Dolphin that had been slated to remain on the Pacific Station.

USS Brandywine's directed her efforts to protecting American citizens, especially merchant seamen who were being impressed into service by the Peruvian Navy.

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USS Brandywine dispatched Commodore Daniel Patterson to the Mediterranean with reinforcements for the squadron already there and with orders to take overall command of American forces from Commodore James Biddle.

USS Brandywine's completed her scheduled tour there under the command of Capt.

USS Brandywine's spent much of that time anchored near Fort Monroe, her most conspicuous absence coming in the wake of CSS Virginia's attempt to break the Union blockade early in the spring of 1862.

Towed to Baltimore, Maryland by Mount Vernon, USS Brandywine remained there until early June 1862, by which time the danger posed by the Confederate ironclad had waned considerably.

USS Brandywine was the very first warship ever built with an innovative elliptical stern which reduced the chronic vulnerability of the traditional square stern ship to enemy fire and allowed her to carry stern-mounted guns.