HMS Little Belt

Two ships of the British Royal Navy were named HMS Little Belt after the Little Belt , the strait between Funen and Jutland in Denmark .

• The first Little Belt was a sixth rank ship with 20 guns that resembled a slightly enlarged sloop . It was an originally Danish ship named Lille Belt , which was taken over by the British after the Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 and renamed the Little Belt . In the so-called President-Little Belt affair, an exchange of fire with the US frigate USS President on May 17, 1811, it was so badly damaged that it was sold in 1811.

• The second Little Belt was an 18-cannon sloop built in 1812 and captured by the Americans in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. She was stranded under the American flag at Black Rock (New York) in December of that year and was soon burned by British troops.