USS Ticonderoga (1814)

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The USS Ticonderoga was a schooner which served in the United States Navy from 1814 to 1825. The first vessel in navy service by that name, she was built as a merchant steamer in 1814 at Vergennes, Vermont, purchased by the Navy at Lake Champlain, converted to a schooner, and relaunched on 12 May 1814.<ref>Maclay, 1894 p. 28</ref>

Service history

Ticonderoga served with Captain Thomas Macdonough's squadron during the Battle of Plattsburgh on 11 September 1814.<ref>Maclay, 1894 p. 28</ref> Commanded by Lt. Stephen Cassin, Ticonderoga compelled sloop HMS Chubb (formerly Template:USS) to surrender after riddling her with shot and forcing her aground.<ref>Roosevelt, 1883 p. 391</ref> She also assisted in the capture of sloop HMS Finch (formerly Template:USS), and repelled several boarding attempts by British gunboats. Midshipman Hiram Paulding was on board Ticonderoga during the battle and used his pistol to discharge a cannon when firing matches proved defective. During the two-and-one-half-hour engagement, six members of TiconderogaTemplate:'s crew were killed, and six others were wounded.

After the war, Ticonderoga was laid up at Whitehall, New York. A decade later, she was pronounced unworthy of repair and sold at public sale on 19 July 1825.

She was rediscovered in 1958, raised and "salvaged" the next year; the wooden remains of this historic vessel are now on public display in Whitehall, New York.