for a planned spring 2017 release. Eponymous ships Commodore Perry has been repeatedly honored with ships bearing his name. , a sailing brig 1843–1865 , an armed side-wheel ferry built in 1859 by Stack and Joyce, Williamsburg, New York and purchased by the Navy on October 2, 1861; and commissioned later in the month, Acting Master F. J. Thomas was in command , a (1900–1919) , a converted into a high-speed minesweeper and re-designated DMS–17 effective November 19, 1940. Served 1921–1944; sunk in Battle of Peleliu. , a Liberty ship. See List of Liberty ships (M–R). , a (1945–1970) , a guided-missile frigate (1976–1997), and the s, of which it was a member, are named in his honor. The Navy built 51 of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates, with the first going into service in 1977, and the last to be finally moth-balled in 2015. See also USS Perry. SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, a Rhode Island Educational Foundation tall ship Popular Song In 1820, Anthony Philip Heinrich wrote a song, Ode to the Memory of Commodore O. H. Perry with words by Henry C. Lewis. See also The Perry Family Jesse Elliot Matthew C. Perry List of books about the War of 1812 Bibliography of early American naval history Notes Footnotes Citations Bibliography , Book E'book E'book , Book Url , Book Further reading Axelrod, Alen; Phillips, Charles. The Macmillan Dictionary of Military Biography (New York: Macmillan, 1998.) p. 343. Bancroft, George, 1800–1891; Dyer, Oliver, 1824–1907. (1891) History of the battle of Lake Erie: and miscellaneous papers (New York: R. Bonner's sons) 292 pp. at American Library Association. Burges, Tristam (1770–1853) (1839) Battle of Lake Erie, with notices of Commodore Elliot's conduct in that engagement (Providence, Brown & Cady) at Internet Archive. Conners, William James, 1857–; Emerson, George Douglas. (1916) The Perrys victory centenary. Report of the Perry’s victory centennial commission, state of New York (Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Printers). Coles, Harry L; Borstin, Daniel J., eds. August 1966 The War of 1812 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) . Cooper, James Fenimore (1846) Lives of Distinguished American Naval Officers Kingman Press and here Lives of distinguished American naval officers for American Library Association. Cooper, James Fenimore, History of the Navy (1839). Dillon, Richard. (1978) We have met the enemy: Oliver Hazard Perry, wilderness commodore (New York: McGraw-Hill). . Dutton, Charles J.(1935) Oliver Hazard Perry (New York: Longmans, Green and