Editing Battle of Valcour Island (section)

==Order of battle==
[[File:Valcour canadianarchive c013202k.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Contemporary watercolor drawing of the American line of battle by Charles Randle. Drawing is titled as follows: New England Armed Vessels in Valcure Bay, Lake Champlain [including ''Royal Savage'', ''Revenge'', ''Lee'', ''Trumble'', ''Washington'', ''Congress'', ''Philadelphia'', ''New York'', ''Jersey'', ''Connecticut'', ''Providence'', ''New Haven'', ''Spitfire'', ''Boston'', and ''Liberty''] commanded by Benedict Arnold.]]
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|+ American fleet
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! style="width: 20%" | Ship (type, guns)
! style="width: 25%" | Commander
! style="width: 30%" | Notes
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| {{USS|Enterprise|1775|2}} ([[Sloop-of-war|sloop]], 12)
| James Smith<ref name=N70>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 70</ref>
| Hospital ship, escaped
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| {{USS|Royal Savage|1775|2}} ([[schooner]], 12)
| [[David Hawley]]<ref name=N297>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 297</ref>
| Ran aground and burned October 11
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| {{USS|Trumbull|1776 row galley|2}} ([[row galley]], 10)
| Seth Warner (left flag, Edward Wigglesworth)<ref name=N258>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 258</ref>
| Escaped<br>Called ''Schuyler'' prior to launch<br>Also referred to as ''Trumble''
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| {{USS|Washington|1776 lateen-rigged galley|2}} (row galley, 10)
| John Thatcher (right flag, David Waterbury)<ref name=N284>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 284</ref>
| Damaged October 11<br>Captured October 13
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| {{USS|Revenge|1776|2}} ([[schooner]], 8)
| Isaac Seamon<ref name=N256>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 256</ref>
| Escaped
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| {{USS|Congress|1776|2}} (row galley, 8)
| James Arnold (flagship, [[Benedict Arnold]])<ref name=Bratten204>[[#Bratten|Bratten (2002)]], p. 204</ref><ref name=N295>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 295</ref>
| Ran aground and burned October 13
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| {{USS|Lee|1776|2}} (row galley, 6)
| Captain Daviss<ref>[[#NYSM313|Bulletin of the New York State Museum, Issue 313 (1937)]], p. 135</ref>
| Ran aground October 13<br>Recovered by British
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| {{USS|Boston|1776|2}} ([[gundalow]], 3)
| Captain Sumner<ref name=N263>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 263</ref>
| Ran aground and burned October 13
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| ''Connecticut'' (gundalow, 3)
| Joshua Grant<ref name=N263/>
| Ran aground and burned October 13
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| ''Jersey'' (gundalow, 3)
| Captain Grimes<ref name=N312>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 312</ref>
| Abandoned October 13<br>Recovered by British<br>Also referred to as ''New Jersey''
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| {{USS|New Haven|1776|2}} (gundalow, 3)
| Samuel Mansfield<ref name=N263/>
| Ran aground and burned October 13
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| {{USS|New York|1776|2}} (gundalow, 3)
| Captain Lee<ref name=N279>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 279</ref>
| Cannon exploded<ref name=Cohn>[[#Cohn|Cohn et al. (2007)]]</ref><ref name=AHL>[[#AHL cannon|America's Historic Lakes]]</ref><br>Escaped<br>Called ''[[USS Success|Success]]'' prior to launch
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| {{USS|Philadelphia|1776|2}} (gundalow, 3)
| Benjamin Rue<ref name=N262>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 262</ref>
| Sank October 11<br>Raised 1935
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| {{USS|Providence|1776 gundalow|2}} (gundalow, 3)
| Isaiah Simonds<ref name=N255>[[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p. 255</ref>
| Sank October 13
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| {{USS|Spitfire|1776 gunboat|2}} (gundalow, 3)
| Philip Ulmer<ref name=N263/>
| Sank October 12 near Schuyler Island; wreck located in 1997<ref name=LCMM_Spitfire/>
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| colspan="3" |Ship descriptions and dispositions (but not captains) provided by [[#Silverstone|Silverstone (2006)]], pp.&nbsp;15–16, unless otherwise cited. Ship captains are all as cited.
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[[File:Valcour canadianarchive c013203k.jpg|thumb|center|400px|Contemporary watercolor drawing of the British line of battle by Charles Randle. Title of the painting: His Majesty's Vessels on Lake Champlain commanded by Commodore Thomas Pringle, R.N., including the ships ''Carleton'', ''Inflexible'', ''Maria'', ''Convert'', ''Thunderer'', as well as a long boat and some gun boats.]]
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%"
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|+ British fleet
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! style="width=20%" | Ship (type, guns)
! style="width=25%" | Commander
! style="width=30%" | Notes
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| ''Inflexible'' (square-rigged ship, 22)
| [[John Schank]]
| Participated in later stages of battle
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| ''Thunderer'' ([[ketch]]-radeau, 18)<ref group="Note">''Thunderer'' was basically a keelless raft rigged as a ketch.</ref>
| George Scott
| Did not participate in main action
|-
| ''Maria'' (schooner, 14)
| John Starke (flagship, [[Thomas Pringle|Pringle]] and [[Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester|Carleton]])
| Did not participate in main action
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| ''Carleton'' (schooner, 12)
| [[James Richard Dacres (1749–1810)|James Dacres]]
| Heavily damaged October 11
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| ''Loyal Convert'' ([[gundalow]], 7)
| Edward Longcroft
| Also called ''Royal Convert'' or ''Loyal Consort''<ref name="malcolmson27note" group="Note">[[#Malcolmson|Malcolmson (2001)]], on page 27 shows an image of a contemporary British draft document describing the ''Loyal Convert'', where it is clearly readable by that name.</ref>
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| 28 unnamed gunboats (gunboat, 1)
| unknown
| One destroyed October 11; many others damaged, two lost after action
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| colspan="3" |Ship descriptions and dispositions are from [[#Nelson|Nelson (2006)]], p.&nbsp;33. Note that from the early beginnings of the U.S. Navy there had been no standard method of referring to U.S. Navy ships until 1907, when President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] issued [[Executive order (United States)|Executive Order]] 549 on 8 January stating that all US Navy ships were to be referred to as "The name of such vessel, preceded by the words, United States Ship, or the letters U.S.S., and by no other words or letters".<ref>{{cite web|title=USN Ship Naming|publisher=[[Naval History & Heritage Command]]|date=29 September 1997|url=http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm|access-date=12 March 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103224426/http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq63-1.htm|archive-date= 3 January 2015}}</ref>
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