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{{Ship
|colspan="2"|[[Image:USS Congress.jpg|300px|USS ''Congress'']]
| name=USS ''Congress''
|-
| image=USS Congress.jpg
| caption=
| flag-raw=[[File:15 star flag.png|40px]] [[Image:15 star Jack.PNG|30px]]
|-
| flag-caption=
| Launched:
| owner=United States Navy
| 15 August 1799
| built=Gosport Navy Yard<br/>Portsmouth, Virginia
|-
| authorized=27 March 1794
| Commissioned:
| keellaid=
| December 1799
| launched=15 August 1799
|-
| commissioned=December 1799
| Fate:
| retired=
| broken up
| status=Broken up in Norfolk, Virginia in 1834
|-
| type=Sail frigate
| displ=1,244 t
| length=152.7 ft at waterline
| beam=41.3 ft
| 1,244 tons (1254 [[metric ton|t]])
| draft=20 ft
| speed=13+ knots
| test=
| 152.7 ft (46.5 m)
| armament=twenty-eight 18 pd guns<br>twenty 32 pd carronades
| crew=340 officers and men
| troops=
| 41.3 ft (12.6 m)
| pass=
|-
| Depth:
| 20 ft (6.1 m)
|-
| Complement:
|-
| Armament:
|}
|}
}}
'''USS ''Congress''''', one of six frigates authorized by congressional enactment of 27 March 1794, was built by naval constructor, J. Hackett, at Portsmouth, N.H. Her construction, interrupted upon conclusion of peace terms with Algiers, was resumed with the imminence of naval war with France, and she was launched 15 August 1799 under the command of Captain J. Sever.
'''USS ''Congress''''', one of six frigates authorized by congressional enactment of 27 March 1794, was built by naval constructor, J. Hackett, at Portsmouth, N.H. Her construction, interrupted upon conclusion of peace terms with Algiers, was resumed with the imminence of naval war with France, and she was launched 15 August 1799 under the command of Captain J. Sever.