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Showing posts with label HMS Atalante. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HMS Atalante. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
HMS Atalante-- Part 4: Pretty Good Prize Sailing
Movements of the Atalante:
31 MARCH 1813: Captured the American schooners President and Rising while on the North America & West Indies Station.
2 APRIL 1813: Captured American schooner Centurion and ship Fame while on North American & W. Indies Station.
13 APRIL 1813: Arrived at Halifax with the four American ships after cruising off coast of New York.
23 APRIL 1813: Captured American brig Lilac on North American & West Indies Station. Sent it to Halifax.
24 APRIL 1813: Sailed on a cruise (must have been the one involving the Nova Scotian privateer Crown.
The Story of a Ship. --Brock-Perry
Monday, July 29, 2013
HMS Atalante-- Part 3: Convoy Duty
The Naval Database site says the Atalante sank November 10, 1813, off the Halifax Lighthouse.
Some of the Atalante's career:
12 OCT. 1812-- At Portsmouth, England--ordered to escort convoy to North America.
11 NOV. 1812-- departed Spithead, England, for Halifax, Canada.
15 NOV. 1812, the barks Agnes and Barrett left the convoy and were later captured by the American privateer Hunter. A prize crew was put aboard the Agnes and headed for Boston, but contrary winds prevented the ship from reaching that destination.
Running short of supplies, the Agnes' prize crew sailed her into Halifax, arriving there 9 Feb. 1813, after a 90 day passage. This is an interesting story in itself. I'll have to look into it.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Why It Takes So Long to Do This Blog
This would also apply to my other six blogs.
I get started with an article and one things leads to another, until I am several related subjects away.
The last several days it started with Nova Scotia privateers during the War of 1812. That led to the term "Bluenoses." Then, the Nova Scotian privateer Crown which had a prize taken away by a bigger British ship.
That ship was the HMS Altalante which was eventually wrecked at Sambro Island (Halifax) Lighthouse, where another ship was wrecked in 1920, the Norwegian freighter Romsdalfjord. Then I got into some of the Atalante's cruises and captures while serving on the British North America and West Indies Stattion, something else I had to look up.
By the way, the Sambro Island Lighthouse is the oldest surviving North American lighthouse.
Then, there is the story of the American privateer Young Teazer which captured two ships off the light, then was chased and blew up casing the so-called Teazer Light (spooky).
I will be writing more about these things.
Well, That's Why. One Thing leads to Another. --Brock-Perry
I get started with an article and one things leads to another, until I am several related subjects away.
The last several days it started with Nova Scotia privateers during the War of 1812. That led to the term "Bluenoses." Then, the Nova Scotian privateer Crown which had a prize taken away by a bigger British ship.
That ship was the HMS Altalante which was eventually wrecked at Sambro Island (Halifax) Lighthouse, where another ship was wrecked in 1920, the Norwegian freighter Romsdalfjord. Then I got into some of the Atalante's cruises and captures while serving on the British North America and West Indies Stattion, something else I had to look up.
By the way, the Sambro Island Lighthouse is the oldest surviving North American lighthouse.
Then, there is the story of the American privateer Young Teazer which captured two ships off the light, then was chased and blew up casing the so-called Teazer Light (spooky).
I will be writing more about these things.
Well, That's Why. One Thing leads to Another. --Brock-Perry
The HMS Atalante (Atalanta)-- Part 2: The Wreck
Continued from the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic site.
The Altalante was headed for Halifax, returning from a patrol with dispatches. In heavy fog, despite heavy precautions, it struck the dreaded Blind Sisters ledge near Sambro Island. The bottom of the ship ripped open and it broke in two.
Due to the efforts of its captain and well-disciplined crew, all 79 men and 1 woman survived.
The Atalante's Captain, the same Frederick Hickey who commanded the ship when it cut in on the Crown's prize, was acquitted of blame for the ship's sinking.
Stay Off the Ledge. --Brock-Perry
The Altalante was headed for Halifax, returning from a patrol with dispatches. In heavy fog, despite heavy precautions, it struck the dreaded Blind Sisters ledge near Sambro Island. The bottom of the ship ripped open and it broke in two.
Due to the efforts of its captain and well-disciplined crew, all 79 men and 1 woman survived.
The Atalante's Captain, the same Frederick Hickey who commanded the ship when it cut in on the Crown's prize, was acquitted of blame for the ship's sinking.
Stay Off the Ledge. --Brock-Perry
The HMS Atalante (Atalanta)-- Part 1
In the last post, I wrote about the problems the Nova Scota privateer Crown had with the British warship HMS Atalante when it claimed part of the capture of the American brig Sibac. It sure sounded like the Atalante was late on the scene, but decided to cut in on the prize money the Sibac would bring, When the Crown's Captain Jennings complained, the Atalante's Captain Hickey impressed two of his crew.
Time to do some research on the HMS Atalante and there wasn't much. I did find more on a previous HMS Atalante which was a captured French ship that sank in 1807.
But, the Atalante (also called the Atalanta) in question with the Crown Affair was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1813 according to Wikipedia, which does not have an article on it.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, in its On the Rocks: Find a Wreck site said the HMS Altalante was 107 feet long, had three masts and was one of six Bermuda-class sloops.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
Time to do some research on the HMS Atalante and there wasn't much. I did find more on a previous HMS Atalante which was a captured French ship that sank in 1807.
But, the Atalante (also called the Atalanta) in question with the Crown Affair was an 18-gun sloop launched in 1808 and wrecked in 1813 according to Wikipedia, which does not have an article on it.
The Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, in its On the Rocks: Find a Wreck site said the HMS Altalante was 107 feet long, had three masts and was one of six Bermuda-class sloops.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
Bluenoses Made Out Like Bandits-- Part 5: The Privateer Crown's Problems With the HMS Atalante
Two days into the first cruise in April 1813, they spotted and chased a ship five times bigger than the Crown. After a two and a half hour chase, they captured the brig Sibac of Boston, put on a prize crew and transferred the Sibac's seven-man crew to the Crown in handcuffs.
The crew was not happy when the HMS Atalante arrived on the scene and claimed partial capture so it could get a cut of the prize money.
Captain Solomon Jennings of the Crown so loudly protested that British Captain Frederick of the Atalante forced two of the Crown's crew into the Royal Navy, which was a highly unusual action when dealing with British privateers.
The Vice Admiralty in Halifax did not hear the case for several months. In the meantime Jennings put into Shelburne and discharged his prisoners and replaced the two crew that had been impressed.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
The crew was not happy when the HMS Atalante arrived on the scene and claimed partial capture so it could get a cut of the prize money.
Captain Solomon Jennings of the Crown so loudly protested that British Captain Frederick of the Atalante forced two of the Crown's crew into the Royal Navy, which was a highly unusual action when dealing with British privateers.
The Vice Admiralty in Halifax did not hear the case for several months. In the meantime Jennings put into Shelburne and discharged his prisoners and replaced the two crew that had been impressed.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
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