HMS Tenedos (1812)

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HMS Tenedos (1812) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812 and saw action on the eastern American coast during the War of 1812.

Service

Tenedos, part of a fleet under the command of Sir Philip Broke, was assigned to patrol of the coast near Boston Harbor in April 1812.[1] In August of the same year, the Tenedos lost seven men in an engagement with irregular forces off Mount Desert Island, Maine.[2]

While harbored at Halifax, Nova Scotia Tenedos during a severe winter storm on 12 November, broke free of her moorings and almost collided with two ships nearby.[3]

The brig Sarah, R.Pendergrast, master, which had been sailing from New York to Amsterdam when HMS Tenedos captured her on 19 February 1813. Sarah had been carrying a cargo of 425 bales of cotton, 186 barrels of post ashes, and 3000 pipe staves.[4]

Tenedos was part of a fleet that captured the USS President on 15 January 1815, just outside New York Harbor.[5][6]

On 17 February 1815 the War of 1812 ended when the US Congress ratified the

colony of Bermuda from 1843 and was broken up in 1875.[7]

1848 Woodcut of HMD Bermuda, Ireland Island, Bermuda. Tenedos is at far left.

See also

Citations

  1. ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 108
  2. ^ Simpson. The Maine Islands in Story and Legend. pp. 200–202.
  3. ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 162
  4. ^ Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 155.
  5. ^ Hickey, 1989, p. 216
  6. ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 269
  7. ^ Kent History Forum, 2019, Essay

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