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USS Delaware (1820-1861)
Howard B. French (1906-1987)
One of the ships-of-the-line authorized in 1816, Delaware was commissioned in 1820. For more than twenty years, she alternated periods in period with foreign deployments, serving in the Mediterranean and Brazil Stations. She was placed out of commission in 1844. She was scuttled at Norfolk Navy Yard at the beginning of the Civil War. The ship's figurehead, of the Delaware Indian chief Tamanend, was recovered after the war and placed at the Naval Academy, where it became popularly known as Tecumseh. |