HMS Confiance
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The largest warship ever constructed on Lake Champlain, HMS Confiance was a 36 gun frigate and built in answer to the American commander Thomas Macdonough's ambitious shipbuilding program, itself designed to thwart British advances into Vermont and New York during the War of 1812. Captain George Downie's flagship at the Battle of Plattsburg, on September 11, 1814, Confiance was forced to strike after a two-hour battle with Macdonough's Saratoga, during which she sustained at least 105 hits by round shot. Forty of her crew were killed, including Downie, and another eighty-three wounded. Taken into the U.S. Navy at Whitehall, New York in 1815, she was never fitted and she was eventually sold out of the Navy about 1825.
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