 Sir Robert Hall, K.C.B., who was ordered to establish a "respectable naval force", took command of the Lakes Service in October 1815–1818.Commodore Sir Robert Hall took command of the Kingston Skow listed as 56 guns in April 1817.In 1817, the Rush-Bagot agreement limited future naval forces in commission on each lake to a single 100-ton gunboat armed with one gun.