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USS Congress was a nominally rated three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, one of the first six ships of the US Navy. Built by James Hackett at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, she was launched on 15 August 1799 and rated as capable of holding 38 guns, though she often carried more. The name Congress was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March 1795.[6][7] As Joshua Humphreys intended for the frigates to serve as the young Navy's capital ships, Congress and her sister ships were larger and more heavily armed than the standard frigates of the period.

Her first duties with the newly formed United States Navy were to provide protection for American merchant shipping during the Quasi War with France and to defeat the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War. During the War of 1812, she made several extended length cruises in company with her sister ship President and captured or assisted in the capture of twenty British merchant ships. At the end of 1813, due to a lack of materials to repair her, she was placed in reserve for the remainder of the war. In 1815, she returned to service for the Second Barbary War and made patrols through 1816. In the 1820s, she helped suppress piracy in the West Indies, made several voyages to South America, and was the first U.S. warship to visit China. Congress spent her last ten years of service as a receiving ship until she was broken up in 1834.