Langton 2 Gun Sloop

I haven't been able to get to the shipyard for several days now to finish this little Great Lakes sloop I started. Both our dogs are 15 years old this year and the little Aussie is on his last legs, literally. so the wife and I have been on watch, sitting with him constantly for the last four days. I haven't been able to get anything done.

She is on duty now so I rushed down to the shipyard to finished the sloop and post this.

This is Langton's two gun sloop, part of their Great Lakes War of 1812 line.
Unfortunately I am not sure what ship this could be. On Lake Erie there was a sloop on both the US and British sides. But the USS Trippe carried just one 24 pounder long gun and the HMS Little Belt had three guns, one 12 pounder long gun and two 6 pounder long guns.
I couldn't find record of any sloops on Lake Ontario at all.

With the 15 star US ensign:

With the Royal Navy red ensign:

I started working on one of the Warlord Games Black Seas frigates....but I was really getting into these little Great Lakes ships that I have had stored for so long.......No promises what the next post will be 😎

April 20 Update:

Brian W. wants me to explain how I swap out the flags so easily. Pretty simple really. I used to mat and frame art prints for a hobby. One of the tools I used was a mat adhesive gun to attach the cut mat to acid free foam core backing.

Adhesive gun, worth its weight in gold!

Adhesive tape cartridge

The tape has sticky adhesive on one side and when it is rolled against something it comes off of the tape and lays smooth on the surface you rolled it on. anything you press onto that surface will stick to it. But it is easily removed with some pressure and the adhesive can be removed by rolling it up with a thumb or finger. This sticky stuff is what I use to swap out flags. It almost never loses its adhesiveness unless it gets dirty. I just lifted a sliver of it and attached it to the line against the sail, then I gently press the flag edge to it and it is done. To remove just a gentle tug downward or upward and the flag comes away. The adhesive stays on the first surface it is applied to, the sail.

Sliver of rolled up sticky stuff to be removed

Flag on

Flag off showing sticky stuff

Flag back on

 So that's how I do it. I have dropped ships and not had the flags fall off, although I only do this to a few ships.