during the war of 1812 what was the ratio of us ships vs the british navy

Imagine the whole country, in the midst of a prosperous commerce, thus suddenly brought to a stand.

Imagine for a moment five million tons of shipping detained thousands of seamen reduced to want, the trades of the ship-builder, joiner, rigger, and sailmaker stopped, the masses of produce now seeking the coast tor shipment arrested on their way by the entire cessation of demand, the banker and insurer idle, the commissioners of bankruptcy, the sheriff, and the jailer busy.

To form some idea of its effects at a period when the nation engrossed most of the carrying trade of the world, let us imagine a message from Washington announcing that Congress, after a few midnight-sessions, has suddenly resolved to withdraw our ships from the ocean, and to export nothing from New York, or any other seaport that it requires the merchant to dismantle his ships and leave them to decay at the wharves that it calls upon two hundred thousand masters and mariners, who now plough the main, to seek their bread ashore that it forbids even the fisherman to launch his chebacco-boat or follow his gigantic prey upon the deep that it subjects the whole coastwise trade to onerous bonds and the surveillance of custom-house officers that it interdicts all exports by land to Canada, New Brunswick, or Mexico. IN the palmy days of Commerce it is difficult to conceive the distress which attended the Embargo.

During the war of 1812 what was the ratio of us ships vs the british navy