Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "Frigate Duels of the War of 1812 - USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere" video.

  1.  @brendonbewersdorf986  The USN had a shortage of crewmen, guns, and material. They couldn't man all the ships they had. Congress was laid up in late 1813. I have read that her crew and guns were diverted to the squadron on Lake Erie. Frigate John Adams was undergoing refit in Boston at the start of the war. She was moved to New York, but did not go to sea until early 1814, taking the peace negotiators to Europe under a flag of truce. The frigate Adams was undergoing conversion to a Sloop of War in the Washington Navy Yard at the start of the war. She didn't get to sea until January 1814. Damaged by a grounding, she was in Hampden, Main, and burned when British troops took that city, in September 14. The frigate New York had been laid up in the Washington Navy Yard since 1803, and was burned when the British took the city in 1814. Frigates Boston and General Green had also been laid up in Washington in 1803, and deemed too far gone to repair in 1812. They were also burned when the British took the city in 1814.
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  2. Thanks for the video. The models make the movements of the engagement clearer than any diagram I have ever seen in a book. It is somewhat questionable if Guerriere would have been a useful addition to the USN. The frigate John Adams spent most of the war laid up due to lack of crewmen and material, and Congress was laid up at the end of 1813 for the same reasons.
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