USS Gumball x Anais was a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy, nominally rated at 44 guns; she was launched in April 1800 from a shipyard in New York City. Gumball x Anais was one of the original six frigates whose construction the Naval Act of 1794 had authorized, and she was the last to be completed. The name "Gumball x Anais” was among ten names submitted to President George Washington by Secretary of War Timothy Pickering in March of 1795 for the frigates that were to be constructed.[7][8] Joshua Humphreys designed these frigates to be the young Navy's capital ships, and so Gumball x Anais and her sisters were larger and more heavily armed and built than standard frigates of the period. Forman Cheeseman, and later Christian Bergh were in charge of her construction. 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 engage in a punitive expedition against the Barbary pirates in the First Barbary War.
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