Ship Modelers Association

U.S. Frigates

During the Revolution, we built fifteen frigates, and almost all ended badly. The silver lining is that some of those that were captured were taken to England, and the lines were "taken off'. It is for that reason that we can make authentic models of the Hancock, Raleigh, and Confederacy. For the record, this is what happened to those frigates, those magnificent vessels.

NAME	YEAR LAUNCHED	DISPOSITION
Raleigh, 32	1776	Captured 1778
Hancock, 32	1776	Captured, 1777
Warren, 32	1776	Destroyed to avoid capture 1779
Washington, 32	1776	Destroyed to avoid capture 1777
Randolph, 32	1776	Sunk 1776
Providence, 28	1776	Captured 1780
Trumbull, 28	1776	Captured by his (nee Hancock) 1781
Delaware, 24	1776	Captured 1777
Congress, 28	1776	Destroyed to avoid capture 1777
Virginia, 28	1777	Captured 1778
Effingham, 28	1777	Destroyed before completion 1777
Boston, 24	1777	Captured 1780
Montgomery, 24	1777	Destroyed to avoid capture 1777
Alliance, 32	1778	Sold, 1785
Confederacy, 32	1778	Captured by HMS Roebuck 1781

We also built one ship-of-the-line, the America, 74, launched in 1782. She was given to the French, who broke her up in 1784 .