![]() ![]() The schooners Seneca and Governor Simcoe were also taken into service. On Lake Ontario, they possessed the ships Royal George and Prince Regent, and the brigs Earl of Moira and Duke of Gloucester, based at the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard. ![]() Although not particularly well manned or efficient, its ships were initially unopposed on Lake Erie and Lake Huron, and made possible the decisive early victories of Major General Isaac Brock. When war was first declared, the British had an early advantage on the Great Lakes in that they possessed a quasi-naval body, the Provincial Marine. The contest essentially became a naval building race, sometimes referred to sarcastically as the "Battle of the Carpenters." Few actions were fought, none of which had decisive results. The Engagements on Lake Ontario encompass the prolonged naval contest for control of the lake during the War of 1812. Capture of HMS Caledonia and HMS Detroit. ![]() Capture of East India Company ship Nautilus. ![]()
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