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{{Short description|Frigate of the Continental Navy}}
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|Ship name= USS ''Bourbon''
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|Ship ordered=23 January 1777
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|Ship launched=31 July 1783
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|Ship homeport=Chatham (now Middletown), Conn.
|Ship fate= Sold, September 1783
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|Ship tonnage= 900 tons
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'''USS ''Bourbon''''' was a 36-gun [[frigate]] of the [[Continental Navy]] named for the [[House of Bourbon]]. During the [[American Revolutionary War]], ''Bourbon'' was authorized as a 36-gun frigate by the [[Continental Congress]] 23 January 1777.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040625142650/http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b8/bourbon.htm ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'', James L. Mooney, 2001]</ref> Very little else is known about it, but it may have been  built at [[Chatham, Connecticut]].  Due to the Congress's financial difficulties,  it was not launched until 31 July 1783. In September 1783, still uncompleted, it was offered for sale and presumably sold.

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