Coffins of the Brave: Lake Shipwrecks of the War of 1812

Index of Ships

{ 409 } Index of Ships *Abbreviations: a (or b) = left or right column; t = table; n (or nn) = note(s); fig = any illustration (photo, drawing, painting, etc.); pl. = color plate; RAr =Royal Army; PM = Provincial Marine; RN = Royal Navy; USAr = United States Army; USN = Untied States Navy Abundance (RN armed transport), 348a Adams (US brig, later PM Detroit, Upper Lakes): captured at Detroit, 10, 11; salting of frames, 81; renamed Detroit by the British, 10 Æolus (RN frigate), 191a, 348b Ajax (RN third-­ rate), 348b Alert (USN sloop of war), 280, 315 Allen (USN gunboat, Lake Champlain), 7, 271, 280, 293n52, 304; archeological study of, 258, 283, 284–85; armament, 278b; artifacts from, 284a, 285, 287, 364; clay smoking pipe, p1.9a (photo), 293n64; deck lights, 90fig3 (photo); jug, 289fig10 (photo); commander of: Robbins, 293n52; assigned to carry provisions and spare equipment, 278; ballast of, 285–86; ballast pigs from, 289fig9 (photo); compared to the brig Eagle, 326; construction of, 276–77; excavation of, 285fig6 (photo); lessons learned through examination of, 358; mast, yard, and sail plan of (conjectural ), 279fig3; at Plattsburgh Bay, 282b, 284a; and patrol duties, 280b; profile views of stem and stern of (drawing), 288fig8; reconstructed lines of, 290fig11; reburied for preservation after study, 287; reconstructed profile and deck plan of, 277fig2; returned to service in 1817, 283b, 284a; survived into the twenty-­ first century, 244, 321; wreck plan of, 286–87fig7 Alvin Clark (schooner), 68n4 Alwyn (USN gunboat, Lake Champlain), 274, 293n52; armament loaned to Ticonderoga, 280b; commander of: Bancroft; construction of, 273a; sold at auction, 283a, 293n56 Amelia: (USN schooner, Upper Lakes), 14; as General Wilkinson, 70n49 Argus (USN brig), 279 Ariel (USN schooner, Upper Lakes): at the Battle of Lake Erie, 21; burning of, 15, 85, 357; Dobbins-­ and-­ Brown built, 14 Asp (USN schooner, Lake Ontario): tonnage , armament, and crew composition , 126t1 Ballard (USN gunboat, Lake Champlain); 273a, 274, 293n52; armament loaned to Ticonderoga, 280b; commander of: Holland, 293n52; offered at auction, 283a; sale price of hull, 293n56 Beagle (RN barque), 42 Beckwith (RN transport brig, later RN Charwell, Lake Ontario), 201 Beresford. See also Index of Ships: Lord Beresford Black Snake (RN gunboat, Lake Ontario and Upper St. Lawrence River), 222 Blucher (RN gunboat, Lake Champlain), 256 Bolivar (Eckford-­ built corvette), 183 Borer (USN gunboat, Lake Champlain), 278, 284a; at the Battle of Plattsburgh Bay, 282b; commander of: Conover, 293n52; patrol duties on the lake, 280b Boscawen (British Army sloop, Lake Champlain), 16n4, 81, 264; and saddle mast step, 68n4 Brock (RN schooner, Lake Ontario), 201. See also Index of Ships: Sir Isaac Brock Broke (RN sloop, ex-­ USN Growler, later RN Chub, Lake Champlain), 239, 273a Browns Bay Vessel (poss. RN gunboat Radcliffe, Lake Ontario and Upper St. Lawrence River), p1.8b (photo), 7, 81, 223; artifacts of, 223b; bow timbers, 227fig6 (photo); and British design features, 220, 230b–31, 233b, 304; construction features of, 119b, 225, 227– 30, 233–34; copper-­ fastened, 362; on display at Fort Wellington National Historic Site, 235n42, 355fig1 (photo); frame sections of, 229fig8 (drawings); lessons learned through examination of, 358; moisture contents of hull timbers , 235n17; plan and profile of wreck, 226fig5; possible postwar RN navy gunboat Radcliffe, 231; profile of stern, 228fig7 (drawing); reconstructed lines of, 231fig9; recovery and preservation of, 223–25a; refitted for use as a merchant vessel, 220, 231–33 Bullfrog (RN schooner, Lake Ontario), 201 Burlington (RN frigate, ex-­ RN Ship No. 2, ex-­RN Vittoria, ex-­RN Princess Charlotte , Lake Ontario), p1.8a (aquatint), 212; Admiralty rating, 196b; archeological look at, 208–10, 212–13; armament , 197a; commission status, 199a; compared to US vessels, 197; deterioration and demise, 199, 201; principal dimensions, 371–72t; profile, 210fig15 (drawing); renaming of, 196; and saddle mast step, 68n4; timber scantlings and wood species of, 375t; as Wreck Baker: at Deadman Bay, 203, 204–205; frame assembly, 211fig16 (drawing); view from stern, 209fig14 (drawing) Burrows (USN galley/gunboat, Lake Champlain), 278, 284a; commander of: Keteltas, 293n52; patrol duties on the lake, 280b, 282a Caledonia (RN ship of the line), 197 Caledonia (North West Company schooner, later PM brig, later USN brig, Upper Lakes): at the Battle of Lake Erie, 21; as General Wayne, 70n49; grounded and burned, 15; military action in the War of 1812, 75; as part of Lake Erie squadron; 14; suitability as a warship, 74; US capture of, 12 Calypso (French research vessel), 131 Canada (RN ship of the line, ex-­ RN New Ship No. 2, Lake Ontario), 119, 198; deterioration...