From Wikipedia.
After the USS Chesapeake was captured on June 1, 1813, it was repaired and taken into service of the Royal Navy as the HMS Chesapeake. It served on the Halifax Station under the command of Alexander Dixie through 1814.
It sailed to Plymouth in October 1814 and later made a trip to Cape Town, South Africa.
Later commanders of the ship were not too impressed with it and in 1819 it was put up for sale at Plymouth. A Portsmouth timber merchant bought it for 500 pounds, dismantled it and then sold the timber to Joshua Holmes for 3,450 pounds.
Eventually the timbers became part of the Chesapeake Mill in Wickham, Hampshire, England.
In 1996 one timber fragment was returned to the United States and is on display at the Hampton Roads Naval Museum.
--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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