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HMS Detroit (1812)
HMS ''Detroit'' was a 6-gun brig of the Royal Navy. She served on Lake Erie during the War of 1812, giving the British control of the lake. She was briefly recaptured by the Americans, but came under heavy fire and had to be abandoned. Both the British and Americans contested her until her battered hulk was burnt.
==American career and surrender==
''Detroit'' had previously been the brig ''Adams'', a 150-ton vessel built at the United States Shipyard on the River Rouge, begun in 1798 and launched on May 18th 1799. Her official name was the Brig ''President Adams''. She was utilised by the commissariat at Fort Shelby at Detroit, Michigan, to transport troops and supplies to Fort Mackinac and Fort Dearborn. ''Adams'' was in drydock at Detroit for repairs and refitting when war broke out, and though launched on July 4th 1812, was surrendered to the British with the rest of the city on Hull's capitulation.
The British armed the prize and commissioned her as HMS ''Detroit''. She and gave the British undisputed control of Lake Erie and the Upper Lakes.
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