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CYANE
Specialty Definition: USS Cyane
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Two United States Navy ships have been named
Cyane, a Latin word for the blue-green color cyan.
- The first Cyane was originally the 28-gun British frigate HMS Cyane, captured by the Constitution in 1815 and taken into the US Navy, where she served until 1835.
- The second Cyane was a 22-gun sloop-of-war commissioned 1838 and a key player in the Mexican-American War, finally being decommissioned in 1871 and sold 1887.
Source: the above text is adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "USS Cyane."
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