The first ship commissioned for the US military, by the US Army (the US Navy had yet to exist), was the armed schooner "USS Hannah" under the command of Captain Nicholson Broughton. It was outfitted at Glover's Wharf and first sailed from Beverly Harbor on September 5, 1775. For this reason Beverly calls itself the "Birthplace of America's Navy." (Marblehead makes a similar claim, in part, because Broughton was from there and belonged to the Marblehead Regiment.) The "Hannah" can be found on the patch of the city's police department.