By contrast, the United States Navy comprises…
1812 CE
By contrast, the United States Navy comprises eight frigates, fourteen smaller sloops and brigs, and no ships of the line.
The U.S. had embarked on a major shipbuilding program before the war at Sackets Harbor, New York and continues to produce new ships.
Three of the existing American frigates are exceptionally large and powerful for their class, larger than any British frigate in North America.
Whereas the standard British frigate of the time is rated as a thirty-eight gun ship, usually carrying up to fifty guns, with its main battery consisting of eighteen-pounder guns; USS Constitution, President, and United States, in comparison, are rated as forty-four-gun ships, carrying fifty-six to sixty guns with a main battery of twenty-four-pounders.