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USS Louisiana (I)

Sloop:
  • Built in New Orleans, La., in 1812 for merchant service
  • Purchased by the Navy in September 1812
  • Placed in service immediately in defense of New Orleans against British invasion, unarmed and not fitted out through the first 2 years of war
  • After being armed Louisiana served as COMO. Daniel T. Patterson's flagship in August 1814
  • The sloop, the heaviest and most powerfully armed ship in Patterson's small flotilla, served as a floating battery, stationed along the right bank of the Mississippi
  • After the British began landing troops near New Orleans only 9 miles below the city Louisiana and Carolina were ordered to sailed downriver, 23 December in support of General Jackson's hastily assembled troops
  • Louisiana and Carolina pounded the British flank for four days making their advance untenable and giving Jackson time to dig in
  • The loss of Carolina, 27 December left Louisiana the only naval vessel at New Orleans
  • She continued to support Jackson's defense stopping a British advance on the 28th and providing flanking fire on the 30th
  • To strengthen the defense of the city Louisiana's inshore guns were brought ashore and placed in redoubts to bombard the enemy
  • Louisiana supported General Jackson's soldiers with accurate fire until 8 January 1815, when the British veterans were disastrously defeated in the last attack on the city
  • Louisiana was subsequently dismantled and laid up at New Orleans
  • Final Disposition, broken up in 1821
    Specifications:
    Displacement 341 t.
    Length 99' 5"
    Beam 28'
    Depth of Hold unknown
    Draft 14'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Armament sixteen long 24-pdr guns
    Propulsion sail
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    Louisiana 167k USS Louisiana 20¢ Stamp, Marshall Islands, 1997.
    Great Fighting Ships of the 50 States appear on a sheet of stamps issued by the Marshall Islands to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the US Department of the Navy in 1798.    		 Tommy Trampp
    Louisiana (I)
    Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS)
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