From Wikipedia.
The USS Niagara, Perry's flagship after the USS Lawrence was too damaged to continue the fight, was kept afloat after the war ended in 1815 and used as a receiving ship. It was sunk in the 1820s when the U.S. Naval Station at Presque Isle closed.
Benjamin H. Brown of Rochester, New York, bought all four ships (Lawrence, Queen Charlotte and Detroit) in 1825 and sold them in 1836 to George Miles of Erie, Pennsylvania. He raised them all with the plan to use them as merchant ships.
The Lawrence and Niagarawere in such bad condition and had so little hold sopace that he allowed them to be sunk again..
As part of the Centennial of te Battle of Lake Erie, the Niagara was raised again in April of 1913. The keel was found to be in good enough shape to be rebuilt, but that effort was hampered by the lack of the original plan.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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