History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Lady Prevost |
Builder | Amherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard |
Completed | 1810 |
Captured | Surrendered to US forces 11 September 1813 |
United States | |
Name | USS Lady Prevost |
Acquired | 11 September 1813 |
Fate | Sold at auction in 1815 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 230 tons |
Length | 83 ft (25 m) |
Beam | 21 ft (6.4 m) |
Draft | 9 ft (2.7 m) |
Complement | 86 |
Armament |
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USS Lady Prevost was a schooner captured from the British during the War of 1812 and pressed into use in the United States Navy.
Built in 1810 as Lady Prevost at Canadian Provisional Marine in Amherstburg, Ontario, Canada, she was a 13-gun ship named for the wife of General Sir George Prevost, Commander-in-Chief of the British armies along the Canadian-New York border in the War of 1812. She operated out of Navy Island Royal Naval Shipyard.