HMS Tenedos (1812)
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
See also
- Stephen Decatur, Commodore in command of USS President at the time of its capture.
Citations
- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 108
- ^ Simpson. The Maine Islands in Story and Legend. pp. 200–202.
- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 162
- ^ Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 155.
- ^ Hickey, 1989, p. 216
- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 269
- ^ Kent History Forum, 2019, Essay
References
- Hickey, Donald R. (1989). The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. University of Illinois Press.
- Simpson, Dorothy (1987). The Maine Islands in Story and Legend. Nobleboro, Maine: Blackberry Books. ISBN 0-942396-51-0
- McCranie, Kevin D. (2011). Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-61251-063-7.
- "HMS Tenedos (1812 - 1875)". The Kent History Forum. 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute.