High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The first USS Columbia of the United States Navy was a 50-gun sailing frigate. She was built at Washington Navy Yard. Her keel was laid in 1825, but as was typical of much Navy construction during this period, she was not launched until 9 March 1836. On her first cruise, from May 1838-June 1840 with Lieutenant George A. Magruder in command, Columbia rounded the Cape of Good Hope to become flagship of Commodore George C. Read in the East Indies. She returned to the United States by way of Cape Horn, becoming one of the first U.S. naval ships to circumnavigate the globe.

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