HMS St. Lawrence-- Lake Ontario's Ship of the Line-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

Last week, I wrote about a walking tour being offered of naval facilities in Kingston, Ontario, and came across the name of a ship of the line, the HMS St. Lawrence, which I'd never heard of before.

The HMS St. Lawrence was 191 feet long, had a crew of 700 and, among its 112 guns, mounted sixty 32-pdrs, thirty-six 24-pdrs and four 68-pdr. carronades. This made the ship what is considered a first rate ship of the line.

It is the only Royal Navy ship of the line warship ever launched and operated entirely on fresh water. As a matter of fact, it only operated on Lake Ontario because of the how shallow the St. Lawrence River was and its rapids at one end and Niagara Falls at the other.

--Brock-Perry