HMS Little Belt (1812)

Construction and service time
Commissioned:
Laid on the keel:
Launch:	1812 in Fort Erie
Commissioning:	1812
Sister ships:
Fate:	Surrender to US ships in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813 ; Stranded under the US flag on December 8, 1813 and burned by the British
Decommissioning:
General data
Displacement:	90 ts
Length:	18 m
Width:	4.9 m
Draft:	2.1 m
Drive:	sail
Speed:
Range:
Crew:	18 men
Armament:	3 cannons: 1 × 12 pounder , 2 × 6 pounder
Armor:
Motto:

HMS Little Belt

The HMS Little Belt was a British Royal Navy warship that was used in the war of 1812 with the United States .

History of the ship

The Sloop Little Belt was built in Fort Erie in the summer of 1812 for the Royal Navy squadron commanded by Robert Heriot Barclay on Lake Erie . The unusual name after the Little Belt ( Denmark ) came about because the name of the originally Danish 18-gun sloop HMS Little Belt , which became known in 1811 through an exchange of fire with the US frigate USS President and was then decommissioned , was transferred to the ship. As part of Barclays Association, Little Belt took part in the Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813 with the American Association led by Oliver Hazard Perry and had to face the two US ships USS Scorpion and USS Chippeway towards the end of the disastrous battle for the British paint the flag.

After repairing the battle damage Sloop transported under the American flag part of the US troops from General William Henry Harrison , in the October 5 Battle of the Thames Indian-British troops under Major General Henry Procter and Tecumseh had defeated to Buffalo back . On December 5, the ship ran aground in a storm near Black Rock (New York) and was set on fire and destroyed by the British three weeks later.

literature

• Theodore Roosevelt : The War with the United States. In: William Laird Clowes : The Royal Navy. A History from the earliest times to 1900, Vol. 6 . London 1901, pp. 1–180, here pp. 117–128.