Stephen Champlin and the Battle of Lake Erie-- Part 14: The USS Lawrence Put Out of Action

"She still, however, held out for more than two hours, within canister shot distance, the Niagara remaining a long way astern, siring at long shot from her 12 pounder.  A short time before Commodore Perry's going aboard of her, she ranged ahead of the Lawrence, and to windward of her, thus bringing the commodore's ship between her and the enemy, when she might have passed to the leeward, and relieved the Lawrence from the destructive  fire of the enemy;...

"the wind  being at the time southeast, when,  the American squadron steering large, with the exception of the Lawrence, she being entirely disabled, and lying like a log on the water, the Caledonia took and maintained her station on a line which was just astern of the commodore during the whole of the action."

What Was With the USS Niagara?  --Brock-Perry