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| History | |
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| Name | HMS Confiance |
| Builder | Ile aux Noix Naval Shipyards, Quebec, Canada |
| Launched | 25 August 1814 |
| Fate | Captured at the Battle of Plattsburgh, 11 September 1814 |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Confiance |
| Acquired | 11 September 1814 |
| Fate | Abandoned and sunk, 1820 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen | 831 bm[2] |
| Length | 147 ft 5 in (44.93 m)[Note 1] |
| Beam | 37 ft 2 in (11.33 m) |
| Depth of hold | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
| Propulsion | Sail |
| Armament |
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HMS Confiance was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate that served in the Royal Navy on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812. Confiance served as Captain George Downie's flagship at the Battle of Plattsburgh, on 11 September 1814. Surrendered to the American Squadron following a nearly 2½ hour battle, she was eventually taken to Whitehall, New York where she was taken into the U.S. Navy and placed in ordinary. The vessel was formally abandoned by the Navy in 1820 and after being partially salvaged, was allowed to sink at her moorings. As a danger to navigation, the sunken hulk was destroyed with dynamite charges during dredging operations on the channel in 1873.
- ^ Silverstone (2001), p. 72.
- ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8., p. 36
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