USS Ticonderoga (1814)

USS Ticonderoga (1814)

The first USS Ticonderoga was a schooner in the United States Navy. Ticonderoga was built as a steamer in 1814 at Vergennes, Vermont. She was purchased by the Navy at Lake Champlain, converted to schooner rigging, and relaunched on 12 May 1814. She is the first U.S. Navy vessel, in a proud lineage of ships, to bear the name Ticonderoga.