USS Queen Charlotte (1813)
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| Name: | USS Queen Charlotte |
| Namesake: | Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
| Launched: | 1807 |
| Acquired: | by capture, 10 September 1813 |
| Fate: | Sold, 1825 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Sloop-of-war |
| Tonnage: | 400 long tons (406 t) |
| Length: | 116 ft (35 m) |
| Beam: | 26 ft (7.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 11 ft (3.4 m) |
| Complement: | 126 |
| Armament: |
• 14 × 24-pounder carronades • 2 × long 9-pounder guns |
USS Queen Charlotte, a ship-rigged sloop built at Malden (now Amherstberg), Canada in 1807, for the Canadian Provincial Marine, was captured by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 and purchased by the United States Navy. Badly cut-up during the engagement, Queen Charlotte was taken to Put-in-Bay, Ohio and laid up until sold in 1825 to George Brown of Erie, Pennsylvania, who raised her and fitted her out as a merchant ship.
References
- This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
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