United States Ships-of-the-Line-- Part 1

From Wikipedia. 

This grew out of the entries on the USS New Orleans, the only (maybe) American ship-of-the-line ever built on the Great Lakes whose construction started during the War of 1812 in response to British seapower, and I imagine the construction of the HMS St. Lawrence, a ship-of-the-line, in Canada.

Ships-of-the-line were the battleships of the day in naval architecture. A huge ship designed to carry lots and lots of cannons and to batter enemy ships-of-the-line in battle.

Frigates were more like cruisers and I'd have to consider U.S. frigates like the Constitution more along the lines of a pocket battleship.

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