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==[[wp:USS Independence (1814)|USS Independence]]==
==[[wp:USS Independence (1814)|USS Independence]]==
First US Navy ship of the line.
[[Image:USS Independence 1815.jpg|left|200px|The first ship-of-the-line; USS Independence]] First US Navy ship of the line.


<!-- This Independence, first ship-of-the-line commissioned in the U.S. Navy, launched June 22, 1814 in the Boston Navy Yard. She immediately took on guns and was stationed with frigate Constitution to protect the approaches to Boston Harbor. She led her squadron from Boston July 3, 1815 to deal with piratical acts of the Barbary Powers against American merchant commerce. The Independence was recommissioned three times: 1837, 1849, and 1854. She was a ship that proved to be very durable and was not decommissioned permanently until November 3, 1912. Finally on September 20, 1919, the Independence was burned on the Hunter's Point mud flats to recover her metal fittings. The sturdy veteran of the days of wooden ships and iron men had survived more than a century, 98 years of which were spent serving the U.S. Navy. -->
<!-- This Independence, first ship-of-the-line commissioned in the U.S. Navy, launched June 22, 1814 in the Boston Navy Yard. She immediately took on guns and was stationed with frigate Constitution to protect the approaches to Boston Harbor. She led her squadron from Boston July 3, 1815 to deal with piratical acts of the Barbary Powers against American merchant commerce. The Independence was recommissioned three times: 1837, 1849, and 1854. She was a ship that proved to be very durable and was not decommissioned permanently until November 3, 1912. Finally on September 20, 1919, the Independence was burned on the Hunter's Point mud flats to recover her metal fittings. The sturdy veteran of the days of wooden ships and iron men had survived more than a century, 98 years of which were spent serving the U.S. Navy. -->

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USS Independence

US Navy. 10 gun sloop. Served in American War of Independence.

USS Independence

The first ship-of-the-line; USS Independence

First US Navy ship of the line.


USS Independence - SP-3676

US Navy. Freighter.


USS Independence - CVL-22

"The difficult we do immediately; ....the impossible takes a little longer"
The first aircraft carrier to bear the name

The lead ship of the US Navys' Independence class Aircraft Carrier. Earnt 8 Battle Stars during Earths' World War II


SS Independence

Ocean Liner

USS Independence - CV-62

"Freedom's Flagship"
Forrestal Class carrier USS Independence (US Navy)

The second aircraft carrier of Earth's US Navy to bear the name. A Forrestal Class ship, she was launched at the New York Navy Yard on 6th June 1958 and commissioned on the 10th January the following year. The carrier served in both the Vietnam War and the Gulf War.


She was decommissioned on the 30th September 1998 at Bremerton Naval Shipyard in the state of Washington.






USS Independence - LCS-2

US Navy. Prototype for the Independence class Littoral Combat ship.

USS Independence - NCC 01776

The New Orleans class USS Independence (Starfleet)
"A little revolution is good every now and then."

A New Orleans class Starfleet vessel, this Independence was commissioned in 2366 and saw service in the Dominion War. Having survived the war, it underwent a scheduled refit in 2379. The vessel then saw action in the Ithassa Region under the command of Captain Jessa Anassasi. The ship served with distinction in the region, recognised by Starfleet in part by the fact that Captain Anassasi was a Rear Admiral within 4 years of taking command. The vessel was destroyed in an attempted Gorn invasion of the region, being rammed into the Gorn vessel Emperor's Fang by Commander Mar in the climactic Battle of Deep Space 17 on 26th September 2383.