The name Constellation honors the first U.S. Navy ships authorized by Congress in 1794: six heavy frigates named United States ... linking them directly to the original six frigates of our ...

The name honors the very first U.S. Navy ships: Constellation, Constitution, Chesapeake, Congress, United States, and President. Congress authorized the six frigates in 1794, and the Constellation ...

Since the founding of the United States Navy on October 13, 1775, there has been only a single vessel named USS United States – it was one of the original six frigates that served as the core of ...

Braithwaite said the name was selected in honor of the first U.S. Navy ships authorized by Congress in 1794: six heavy frigates named United States ... directly to the original six frigates ...

The name was selected in honor of the first U.S. Navy ships that Congress authorized in 1794 -- named United ... Class frigates, linking them directly to the original six frigates of our Navy ...

The designer of those first six frigates was Joshua Humphreys, a shipwright with a yard at what is now Washington and Delaware Avenues. The new navy’s flagship, the United States, was built there.

The Navy's next ... "The original name was submitted to President [George] Washington in 1795 to represent the 'new constellation of stars' on the United States flag," it states.

The Constellation will be the first warship in the Navy’s new program to build a class of twenty guided-missiles frigates, where were funded by United States Congress in fiscal year 2020 (FY2020 ...

Toll's Six Frigates is a masterly work ... of invincibility surrounding the Royal Navy, thereby halting any further British designs on the United States.

Climbing into the rigging is a chance for the sailors to practice handling lines and sails and operating a ship that is almost as old as the United ... of the Navy’s original six frigates.

The 1794 Naval Act called for building six frigates with names reflecting the new nation’s principles: United States, Constitution, President, Congress and Constellation. However, then-Navy ...