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Saturday, May 3, 2014

HMS Epervier

From Wikipedia.

On April 29, 1814, the USS Peacock captured the HMS Epervier off Cape Canaveral, Spanish Florida.

The HMS Epervier was an 18-gun Cruzer-class brig-sloop built by Ross at Rochester, England and launched 2 December 1812.  It was commissioned in January 1813.  On August 20, it captured the schooner Lively and later several other American ships and a privateer.

It was captured by the USS  Peacock in 1814 and taken into U.S. service.  The ship disappeared in 1815 while carrying dispatches announcing the signing of the treaty with the Dey of Algiers.

--Brock-Perry



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