High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The second Trumbull — one of the 13 frigates authorized by the Continental Congress on 13 December 1775 — was probably laid down in March or April 1776 at Chatham, Connecticut, by John Cotton and was launched on 5 September 1776. After the frigate had been launched, her builders discovered that her deep draft would make it extremely difficult to get the ship across the bar at the mouth of the Connecticut River into Long Island Sound. The following spring, as Trumbull lay in the river at Saybrook awaiting assistance in getting out to deep water, her safety became a matter of great concern to Continental naval authorities. In April General Howe ordered General Tryon — the Royal Governor of New York — to lead a raid into neighboring Connecticut. Tryon's forces landed at Fairfield, marched inland, and burned Continental public stores at Danbury.

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