Wilmington N.C. sent out three privateers.
The 5-gun schooner Hawk, under Captain W.H. Trippe, went to sea March 1814 with 68 men. Its only prize was the schooner Phoebe with a cargo of rum and molasses. It was sent to Wilmington.
On April 26, 1814, the Hawk was captured by the frigate HMS Pique while off Silver Keys.
The Lovely lass privateer was a 5-gun schooner under Captain J. Smith, USN. It went to sea in 1813 with a complement of 60 men.
In March it sent a captured schooner to New Orleans valued at $10,000. On May 4th, the HMS Circee chased it 19 hours causing the Lovely Lass to throw four guns overboard before it was captured. It had been out 40 days when captured
The most famous and successful was the 6-gun Snap Dragon commanded by Captain E. Pasteur and later by the famous Captain O. Burns.
--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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