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This would be the armed transport brig President Adams; it was built by and for the US Army. From 1802 until its surrender at the capitulation of General Hull on August 16, 1812, it was commanded by a US Army officer, Henry B. Brevoort. According to Dewitt Clinton's "Erie Canal journal", it was armed with 4 cannon in 1810. The British armed her with six 6 pounders, renaming her HMS Detroit. She was captured in a daring American raid led by US Navy Lt. Elliott, October 12, 1812. She was fought over, and finally burned. She was apparently transferred from the US Army to the Navy sometime in the spring of 1812. Thus she had two names, Adams & Detroit, and saw service in three armed services: US Army, US Navy, and the British Navy. I've been researching the Adams since discovering that her mate & sailing master was William Steers (1772-1815), who later served as pilot of the Lawrence during the Battle of Lake Erie, and afterwards as pilot of the Niagara until released from the US Navy in April of 1815.