The U.S. Schooner Lady of the Lake - A Design & Operational History
Year: 2014 Language: English Author: Gibson G.M. Genre: Historical Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 47 Description: Communications in 1812 were slow. It often required days, weeks or even months for information to reach its destination.2 For a naval officer in command of a squadron and responsible for a wide area, as Commodore Isaac Chauncey was in September 1812, a delay in communicating his orders or in receiving news of the enemy impeded or even prevented Chauncey’s operations. For this reason, having a small and fast vessel available to carry dispatches and reports as well as to watch the activities of the enemy’s squadron was critical. After some months using makeshift measures, in early 1813 Commodore Chauncey obtained a permanent solution to these requirements when he had shipwright Henry Eckford build the small schooner Lady of the Lake. This vessel saw almost constant service during the war, sailed to enforce the United States’ revenue laws on Lake Ontario after the war, and ended her life in merchant service.
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The U.S. Schooner Lady of the Lake - A Design & Operational History
Language: English
Author: Gibson G.M.
Genre: Historical
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 47
Description: Communications in 1812 were slow. It often required days, weeks or even months for information to reach its destination.2 For a naval officer in command of a squadron and responsible for a wide area, as Commodore Isaac Chauncey was in September 1812, a delay in communicating his orders or in receiving news of the enemy impeded or even prevented Chauncey’s operations.
For this reason, having a small and fast vessel available to carry dispatches and reports as well as to watch the activities of the enemy’s squadron was critical. After some months using makeshift measures, in early 1813 Commodore Chauncey obtained a permanent solution to these requirements when he had shipwright Henry Eckford build the small schooner Lady of the Lake. This vessel saw almost constant service during the war, sailed to enforce the United States’ revenue laws on Lake Ontario after the war, and ended her life in merchant service.
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