USS New Haven
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The USS New Haven was a gondola built in 1776 on Lake Champlain, Capt. Mansfield in command, under General Benedict Arnold. New Haven took part in the engagement with the British Squadron at the Battle of Valcour Island on 11 and 12 October 1776. The New Haven was among those vessels deliberately grounded and burned preceding the American retreat overland to Crown Point and Fort Ticonderoga.
The name has been proposed at least three other times for a ship of the United States Navy(after New Haven, Connecticut), but:
- The light cruiser New Haven (CL-76) was converted to the aircraft carrier Belleau Wood (CVL-24) in 1942, before launching.
- Another light cruiser New Haven (CL-109), a Fargo-class vessel, was laid down 28 February 1944 by New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, and was to launch 2 December 1945, but her construction was cancelled 12 August 1945.
- A third New Haven (CLK-1) was to have been a hunter-killer cruiser, along with Norfolk (DL-1), but New Haven was deferred 2 March 1949 and then completely cancelled 9 February 1951.
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.