The HMS Nimrod was one of many British ships blockading the coasts of New England and Long Island Sound during the war. It captured and destroyed several American privateers in 1814. It also attacked Falmouth on January 29th and then Wareham and Stonington.
The greatest damage was done at Wareham where 225 British soldiers burned a cotton factory and heavily damaged many vessels, including 17 from Falmouth which had gone upriver for safety.
In 1981, underwater archaeologists sponsored by the Kendall Whaling Museum discovered the five cannons, a carronade and other debris off Round Hill, Dartmouth, Massachusetts. It was decided that they were probably from the Nimrod as it par\trolled the area. They gave a cannon to each town the Nimrod attacked.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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