The frigates 1775-1850. follows: The “Raleigh” at Portsmouth, N. H., the mounted 12-pounders, 9-pounders, and 6-pounders, and “Hancock” and ‘Alliance’ at Salisbury, Mass., the BY DR. CHARLES OSCAR PAULLIN. the smaller craft 6’s and 4’s. A few 18-pounders were The American armed vessels that cruised… … which the largest was the frigate ‘“Pro- ‘eight 9’s. The “South Carolina,” of the South Carolina navy, carried an extra- tector,” mounting 26 guns. The largest Frigate. ordinarily heavy battery for a frigate— ship in the State navies was the “South twenty-eight 32-pounders, and twelve 12-pounders.…
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