USS New Orleans, Ship-of-the-Line-- Part 2

From FlickR.

The New Orleans and its sister ship, the Chippewa, were authorized by Act of Congress on March 3, 1813. Both were laid down in January 1815 in Sackets Harbor, New York on Lake Ontario (probably built to counter the threat of the HMS St. Lawrence, the British ship-of-the-line being built in Canada for operations on Lake Ontario.

They were nearly complete when peace came and work immediately stopped.

The Niles Weekly Register of March 18, 1815, described them, reporting "six hundred carpenters at Sackett's Harbor had made great progress in the building of a ship to carry 98 guns and another of 74 when the building was arrested by news of peace."

A week later, the publication described the ships as "two lake monsters to carry 102 and 110 guns, now planked over."

The New Orleans remained on the stocks and was housed under until sold to H. Wilkinson, Jr. of Syracuse, NY, on September 24, 1883.

--Brock-Perry