High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Independence (1776 sloop) was a sloop in the Continental Navy. Acting as a dispatch boat, she was sent to France on a diplomatic mission – carrying important dispatches. While there, John Paul Jones embarked on her, and she received additional salutes to the American Republic from the French. The first vessel to serve in the American Navy, Independence was a Continental sloop built in Baltimore, Maryland, and purchased and fitted out by the Marine Committee.

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