USS Lady Prevost (1812)

History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Lady Prevost
BuilderAmherstburg Royal Naval Dockyard
Completed1810
CapturedSurrendered to US forces 11 September 1813
United States
NameUSS Lady Prevost
Acquired11 September 1813
FateSold at auction in 1815
General characteristics
Displacement230 tons
Length83 ft (25 m)
Beam21 ft (6.4 m)
Draft9 ft (2.7 m)
Complement86
Armament
  • 1 × 9-pounder gun
  • 2 × 6-pounder guns
  • 10 × 12-pounder guns

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.