&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMS_Detroit.jpg) Painting of HMS Detroit by E.A Hodgkinson
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Detroit |
| Builder | Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard, Amherstburg |
| Laid down | January 1813 |
| Launched | mid-July 1813 |
| Commissioned | August 1813 |
| Fate | Captured on 10 September 1813 |
 United States | |
| Name | USS Detroit |
| Acquired | 10 September 1813 by capture |
| Out of service | 1815 |
| Fate | Sold in 1825 |
| History | |
| Name | Detroit |
| Acquired | 1825 |
| In service | 1836 |
| Out of service | September 1841 |
| Fate | Ran aground above Niagara Falls |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Sloop |
| Tons burthen | 305 (bm) |
| Length | 92 ft 6 in (28.2 m) pp |
| Beam | 26 ft 0 in (7.9 m) |
| Draught | 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m) |
| Depth of hold | 11 ft 0 in (3.4 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Armament |
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HMS Detroit was a 20-gun sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in July 1813 and serving on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. She was the most powerful British ship in the Lake Erie squadron until the Americans captured her during the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. Detroit was commissioned into the United States Navy as its first USS Detroit. However, she was so damaged that the sloop took no further part in the war. Postwar, Detroit was sunk for preservation at Misery Bay off Presque Isle until 1833, when she was refloated and converted for commercial service. In 1841, Detroit was reduced to a hulk at Buffalo, New York, where she was purchased with the intent of sending her over Niagara Falls. The plan went awry and Detroit ran aground on a shoal before the falls and broke up.