From Wikipedia.
This was the ship I wrote about in the Battle of Ice Mound earlier this week.
Launched in 1808 after being built at the Deptford Dockyard on the River Thames. The ship was 422 tons, 108.4 feet, 29.7-foot beam, 121 crew and mounted 26 guns.
In November 1809 it escorted a convoy to the African coast and also escorted convoys to Russia.
In early 1814, it was sent to the Newfoundland Station.
On 22 May, the Dauntless and Cyane recaptured the Eolus.
With the end of the Napoleonic Wars and War of 21812, it was no longer needed and paid off in Portsmouth, but recommissioned in 1818 for service in the East Indies. It was sold for breaking up in 1823.
--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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