“The British ships had fought themselves to a standstill. The _Lady Prevost_ was crippled and sagged to leeward, though ahead of the others. The _Detroit_ and _Queen Charlotte_ were so disabled that they could not successfully oppose fresh antagonists. There could thus be but little resistance to Perry, as the _Niagara_ stood down, and broke the British line, firing her port guns into the _Chippeway_, _Little Belt_, and _Lady Prevost_, and the starboard ones into the _Detroit_, _Queen Charlotte_, and _Hunter_, raking on both sides. Too disabled to tack, the _Detroit_ and _Charlotte_ tried to wear, the latter running up to leeward of the former; and, both vessels having every brace and almost every stay shot away, they fell foul. The _Niagara_ luffed athwart their bows, within half pistol-shot, keeping up a terrific discharge of great guns and musketry, while on the other side the British vessels were raked by the _Caledonia_ and the schooners so closely that some of their grape-shot, passing over the foe, rattled through Perry’s spars. Nothing further could be done, and Barclay’s flag was struck at 3 P.M. after three and a quarter hours’ most gallant fighting.” In this conflict off Put-in-Bay, the American loss was twenty-seven killed and ninety-six wounded. Of these, twenty-two were killed and sixty-one wounded aboard the _Lawrence_. The British loss was forty-one killed and ninety-four wounded, the loss falling most heavily on the _Detroit_ and _Queen Charlotte_. Immediately after the battle, Perry wrote his famous dispatch to General Harrison: “We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop”; and in a postscript he added, “Send us some soldiers to help take care of the prisoners, who are more numerous than ourselves.” It is interesting to note what became of the vessels which played such an important part in this tragic drama of Lake Erie. The _Lawrence_, afterward repaired, was sunk in Misery Bay for preservation. Long afterward a part of her stem was raised and kept as a memorial. For years the _Niagara_ was a training ship on Lake Erie, and was then sunk near the Lawrence. The _Ariel_, _Little Belt_, _Chippeway_, and _Trippe_ were destroyed by the British at Buffalo. The _Detroit_ was also sunk near the _Lawrence_, but in 1835, she was raised and rigged by a Captain Miles. She was afterwards purchased by a Niagara man, and as a spectacle for a crowd of curious people was allowed to break herself to pieces on the rocks above the Falls. The _Queen Charlotte_, _Lady Prevost_, and the _Hunter_ were used in the Lake trade, and the _Caledonia_ became the _General Wayne_. Both the _Scorpion_ and the _Tigress_ were recaptured by the British on Lake Huron.