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<div name=fredbot:career></div name=fredbot:career>'''U.S.S. ''Chesapeake''''' was a wooden-hulled bark that served in the [[U.S. Navy]].   She was renamed '''''Severn''''' on 15 June, 1905.

==Construction==

==Service==
''Chesapeake'' was commissioned on 12 April, 1900 with {{LCommUS}} C. E. Colahan in command. 

She was refitted as a submarine tender in early 1910, emerging in mid-May for work with the {{US-SF|3}}..

==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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==Armament==

==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Severn_(1898)}}
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==Footnotes==
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==Bibliography==
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