Eagle
1814
(Johann Wolkersdorfer JW-77)
- Class: Brig
- Displacement: 508 tons
- Dimensions: 117 x 35 ft
- Armament: 8-18 pdr guns + 12-32 pdr carronades
- Complement: 150
- Builder: Adam & Noah Brown
- Built: Vergennes, Vermont, 1814
- Notes: Laid down 23 Jul 1814 and launched 11 Aug after only 19 days as Surprise. Renamed Eagle on 6 Sep and placed under command of Lt. R. Henley, just in time to participate in the Battle of Lake Champlain 11 Sep 1814. The American squadron was led by Com. Thomas Macdonough. Alongside USS Saratoga, she engaged HMS Chubb, HMS Linnet, and HMS Confiance. During the battle she was holed 39 times and had 13 men killed and 20 wounded. Afterward, she was laid up for preservation at Whitehall, New York, but was sold in 1825. Her submerged and partially-dismembered wreck was discovered there in 1981.
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