From Wikipedia.
Back on May 12th, i mentioned the HMS Sappho getting into a fight with Gunboat No. 168 of the U.S. Navy at Fernadina.
Here is some more information on the HMS Sappho.
It was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop, 100 feet long, 30-foot beam with 121 crew and mounting sixteen 32-pdr. carronades cannon and two 6-pdr. bowchasers.
It was built by Jabez Bailey at Ipswich and launched in 1806 and took part i the Napoleonic Wars. It defeated the Danish brig Admiral Yawl in single ship action during the Gunboat War and had a very successful prize-taking two month voyage against the United States in the War of 1812.
It was wrecked off the Canadian coast in 1825 and broken up in 1830.
--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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