Talk:USS Perry (1843)

Was this named after...
Oliver Hazard Perry? --81.149.74.231 (talk) 13:19, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

The article on Oliver Hazard Perry, to which you link, indicates that she was. Terry Thorgaard (talk) 19:07, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

multiple commissioning and decommissioning
I've never read about a warship which was commissioned and decommissioned so many times. Was frequent Ship_commissioning more common in mid-19th Century America than it was in other times and places? Terry Thorgaard (talk) 19:05, 15 July 2015 (UTC)