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New Orleans (I)

Ship-of-the Line:
  • Laid down, 15 December, 1814 by Henry Eckford, Adam and Noah Brown at Sackets Harbor, N.Y., as the first Ship-of-the-Line intended for the US Navy
  • New Orleans was intended for use on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812
  • Construction was halted in March 1815 upon conclusion of peace with Great Britain, the Treaty of Ghent required New Orleans to de-masted with in one year of the treaty signing
  • New Orleans remained on the stocks, housed over, until sold, 24 September 1883 to H. Wilkinson, Jr., of Syracuse, New York."
    Specifications:
    Displacement 2,805 t.
    Length 347'
    Beam 56'
    Depth unknown
    Draft unknown
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament never installed
    sixty-three long 32-pdrs
    twenty-four 32-pdrs
    Propulsion never installed
    three 250 ft masts
    sail, 100,000 sq ft
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    New Orleans 40k Painting in oil of the incomplete ship-of-the-line New Orleans on the stocks at Sackets Harbor, New York, 1883, artist unknown. Courtesy Carolina Naturally Robert Hurst
    New Orleans
    NH 65000    		 179k New Orleans on the builders ways at Sackets Harbor, New York. Never launched, she was sold for breaking up in 1883. These photographs was probably taken about that time. The top image is the stereocard. "The 80 gun ship, New Orleans, built in 1814, in 27 days at Sackets Harbor, N.Y.; Hart photographer, Watertown, N.Y."
    US Naval History and Heritage Command Photo #'s NH 65000 and NH 73104. Courtesy of Mr. Charles Taylor, Boston, 1933.    		 Tommy Trampp
    New Orleans
    NH 73104    		 98k
    New Orleans 163k New Orleans on the builders ways at Sackets Harbor, New York. Never launched, she was sold for breaking up in 1883. New Orleans was built in 1814, in 27 days at Sackets Harbor, N.Y.
    New Orleans was a ship-of-the-line intended for use by the United States Navy in the War of 1812. She was never finished. New Orleans was laid down on 15 December 1814 by Henry Eckford and Adam and Noah Brown at Sackets Harbor. She was intended for U.S. Navy use on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812 and was the largest of the ships Eckford built at Sackets Harbor. If completed, she would have been the first U.S. Navy ship named New Orleans, but her construction was halted in March 1815 after the conclusion of peace with the United Kingdom. She remained on the stocks, housed over, until sold, 24 September 1883, to H. Wilkinson, Jr., of Syracuse, New York.    		 Tommy Trampp
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    New Orleans
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