USS New Orleans-- Part 1

From Wikipedia.

Ship-of-the-Line laid down at Sackets Harbor 15 December 1814. Work on the ship halted March 1815 with the coming of peace in the War of 1812.

It remained on stocks and later was housed over until 24 September 1883 when it was sold.

It was to have been 204 feet long and was to carry 63 long 32-pdr. cannons and 24 other cannons.

This is the first I've ever heard of an American ship-of-the-line being on the Great Lakes. It would have been interesting had this ship been completed in time to have fought the British Ship-of-the-Line on the Great Lakes,  the HMS St. Lawrence.

--Brock-Perry