From the Jan. 18, 2014, Stonington-Mystic (Connecticut) Patch "Historic Stonington Cannon Finds New Home on Cape Cod."
The Stonington Historical Society handed over an old cannon to a historical society on Cape Cod on January 18th as part of that group's plans to commemorate a British ship's bombardment of that town.
Stonington got the cannon in 2000 from the Kendall Whaling Museum (now part of the New Bedford Whaling Museum). It was part of the five recovered in 1981 from the water at Buzzard's Bay, west of Cape Cod. The guns are presumed to be from the British ship Nimrod, 18 guns, jettisoned while trying to navigate shallow waters. The Nimrod later joined a British fleet in bombarding Stonington Borough from August 9-12, 1814.
The Nimrod was a two-year-old Cruizer-class brig at the time and had joined the HMS Ramillies (74-gun ship-of-the-line), HMS Pactolus (44-gun frigate) and HMS Dispatch (22-gun brig) and bomb ship HMS Terror.
--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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