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USS Superior (I)

Frigate:

Laid down in February 1814 at Sacket's Harbor, N.Y., by Henry Eckford

Launched, 2 May 1814

Built for service in COMO. Isaac Chauncey's squadron on Lake Ontario

Commissioned in 1814, LT. John H. Elton, in command

USS Superior joined the squadron in late July off the English base at Kingston, Ontario

The frigate operated there through the summer as Chauncey blockaded Kingston, hoping to lure Sir James Yeo's fleet out for a decisive action

Superior helped transport General Izzard and some 3,000 troops from Sacket's Harbor to Genesee, N.Y. in September

Laid up for the winter at Sacket's Harbor

Before warm weather returned, peace ended naval operations on Lake Ontario

Superior was laid up at Sacket's Harbor and sold sometime before 1824

Final Disposition, fate unknown

Specifications:
Displacement 1,850 t.
Length unknown
Beam unknown
Depth of Hold unknown
Draft unknown
Speed unknown
Complement 500

Armament

thirty long 32-pdrs

two long 24-pdrs

twenty-six 42-pdr. carronades

Propulsion sail

Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By
	458k	An undated image of Commodore Isaac Chauncey's dismantled frigate USS Superior, at anchor, in Sacket's Harbour, New York. Image from "The Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812", by Benson Lossing, Publishers Harper & Brothers, p. 794., 1868.		Robert Hurst

USS Superior (I)
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)

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