USS Chippewa

USS Chippewa

Five ships of the United States Navy have been named "Chippewa", after the Chippewa Indians, and/or the Battle of Chippawa in the War of 1812.

*, was a schooner captured from British forces which later burned the ship in the same year.

* Construction of a 130-gun ship of the line named "Chippewa" began at the Navy Yard, Sacketts Harbor, New York, after the signing of a contract 15 December 1814, but the ship was never launched. Uncompleted, the ship was sold 1 November 1833.

*, was a brig under the direction of Commodore Oliver Perry. The ship ran aground on an uncharted reef in the Bahamas and sank 12 December 1816.

*, was a wooden screw steamer gunboat launched in 1861 and active in the American Civil War, then sold in 1865.

* USS "Chippewa" (AT-69) was an ocean tug commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1947. She was sunk in 1990 in Florida to serve as an artificial reef.

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