HMS Confiance

Captured

Type	Frigate
Guns	37 guns
War	War of 1812

Service

to 1814	Confiance	Britain
from 1814	Confiance Captured at Lake Champlain	USA

Frigate built at Isle aux Noix and rushed into action with workmen still aboard; the biggest warship on the lake. Captain George Downie was killed by an overturned gun early in the action, and when Saratoga winded to bring a fresh broadside to bear, Confiance could not do the same and struck. Taken into the US Navy and laid up at Whitehall.

Macdonough’s victory on Lake Champlain and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 11 1814. Engraverː Benjamin Tanner, after painting by Hugh Reinagle. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum Collection Photo: Benjamin Tanner / Hugh Reinagle, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

British service

30 × 24-pounder guns
6 × 32-pounder carronades
1 × 24-pounder gun (on pivot mount)

As captured

27 × 24-pounder guns
2 × 18-pounder guns
4 × 32-pounder carronades
6 × 24-pounder carronades

Builder	Ile aux Noix Naval Shipyards, Quebec, Canada
Launched	25 August 1814
Length	147 ft 5 in (44.93 m)

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

25 August 1814

Battle of Lake Champlain

Captured

11 September 1814

George Downie, killed

Joined the United States Navy

11 September 1814 · Captured at Lake Champlain

Fate

Captured

Abandoned and sunk, 1820