From the 1813 privateers.org site.
SNAP DRAGON (532) schr. (privateer) W.R. Graham, master, captured June 30, 1814, by Martin. Otway Burns also built the first steamboat in North Carolina in 1818
Burns is regarded as one of North Carolina's greatest naval heroes in the War of 1812.with his privateer wealth. His desk and a model are displayed at the North Carolina Maritime Museum.
After the War of 1812, the U.S. Navy embarked on building a bigger, more powerful navy. The first of seven ships-of-the-line built was the USS North Carolina, which was launched in 1820 and commissioned in 1824. It was the largest and most powerful ship in the U.S. Navy at the time and a predecessor of World War II's battleship USS North Carolina.
--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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