• HMS Pictou was a 14-gun schooner that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. She served briefly on the Royal Navy's North American station, capturing one or...
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  • name HMS Pictou, named for Pictou, Nova Scotia: HMS Pictou (1813) was a 14-gun privateer or letter of marque that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. The...
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  • Constitution versus HMS Pictou (1813) (February 14, 1814): U.S. frigate Constitution captured and scuttled British schooner Pictou between Barbados and...
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  • HMS Pictou was the American letter of marque schooner Zebra that the Royal Navy captured in 1813. The Admiralty purchased her in 1814 and she served on...
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    HMS Halcyon (1813) was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop that Edward Larking & William Spong built at King's Lynn and launched in 1813. She had one...
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    Comet 1814, February – HMS Epervier captures American privateer-brig Alfred 1814, February 14 – USS Constitution destroys HMS Pictou 1814, March 14 – Hannah...
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    HMS Anacreon had an extremely brief career. She was commissioned in early 1813 and was lost within a year. Commander John Davies supposedly commissioned...
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    numerous merchant ships and defeated five British warships: HMS Guerriere, Java, Pictou, Cyane, and Levant. The battle with Guerriere earned her the...
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  • HMS Canso was the American letter of marque schooner Lottery, launched in 1811, that a British squadron captured in 1813. The Royal Navy took Lottery into...
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    HMS Bacchus was a British Royal Navy Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1813 and expended as a breakwater in 1829. In between, she recaptured or captured...
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  • crew and took them to New York. The vessel was probably HMS Pictou. Substituting Picton for Pictou was a common mistake but the Royal Navy did not use the...
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    Navy took over the Provincial Marine in 1814 and so acquired Nancy. After HMS Nancy was blocked in by an American fleet near the mouth of the Nottawasaga...
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    HMS Endymion was a 40-gun fifth rate that served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812 and during the First Opium War...
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    HMS Leopard was a 50-gun Portland class fourth rate of the Royal Navy. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and was notable...
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  • was a highly successful American privateer schooner. She was launched in 1813 and operated out of Baltimore. She captured over 40 British vessels during...
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    HMS Belle Poule was a Royal Navy fifth-rate frigate, formerly Belle Poule, a Virginie-class frigate of the French Navy that had been built by the Crucy...
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    USS Wasp (1814) (category 1813 ships)
    in early autumn, 1814. Wasp was a ship-rigged sloop-of-war constructed in 1813 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, by Cross & Merrill. She was commissioned in...
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  • into service as the 14-gun gun-brig HMS Nova Scotia. She was renamed HMS Ferret in 1813 and sold in 1820. Rapid, of Portland, Maine, had two commanders, Captain...
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    she captured HMS Frolic, but was immediately herself captured. The British took her into service first as HMS Loup Cervier and then as HMS Peacock. She...
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  • Morning Star was launched at Calcutta, India, in 1813. She was wrecked on a coral reef south of Forbes Island, north Queensland in July 1814. Morning Star...
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    Barnard commanded the ship in 1812. Guy Richards Champlin led the ship from 1813 through July 1814, followed by Captain Samuel Chester Reid until the ship's...
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    Plattsburgh. Amelia |  US | 1813 American merchantman launched in 1810, captured by the Royal Navy, in 1813. HMS Pictou |  Royal Navy | 14 February 1814...
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    HMS Peruvian was an 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop launched in 1808 at Parson's Yard, Warsash, England. She was the first naval vessel built at that...
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  • HMS Gleaner was the mercantile ketch Gleaner, launched in 1802. She served the Royal Navy as the "hired ketch Gleaner" from 12 July 1808 until the Navy...
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  •  14313. 13 September 1813. "Marine List". Lloyd's List (4803). 10 September 1813. "USS Hornet vs HMS Peacock, 24 February 1813". historyofwar.org. Retrieved...
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    HMS Fantome was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was originally a French privateer brig named Fantôme, which the British captured in 1810 and...
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  • was refloated with assistance from the Royal Navy sloop-of-war HMS North Star. In 1813 the EIC lost its monopoly on the trade between India and Britain...
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  • HMS Hermes was a 20-gun Hermes-class sixth-rate flush-decked sloop-of-war built in Milford Dockyard to the lines of the ex-French Bonne Citoyenne. She...
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  • first of these she transported convicts to New South Wales. In December 1813 she was lost in a gale to the east of Algoa Bay while homeward bound from...
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    HMS Reindeer (also Rein Deer) was a Royal Navy 18-gun Cruizer-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, built by Samuel & Daniel Brent at Rotherhithe and was...
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