From another U.S. Coast Guard site.
The Surveyor was 68-feet long, weighed 75 tons with a crew of 25 and mounting six 6-pounders.
One source lists the Surveyor, while still in U.S. service, capturing a British brig on July 4, 1812.
On June 12, 1813, the Surveyor was captured by four British barges from the frigate HMS Narcissus (32 guns).
On August 7, 1813, Captain Samuel Travis of the Surveyor returned to Norfolk, Virginia after being paroled by the British at Washington, North Carolina.
A little too late, but, on June 21, 1813, William Jones, Acting Secretary of the Treasury and Sec. of the Navy wrote that revenue cutters no longer of use in the Chesapeake Bay (because of the British blockade) should be no longer in service and added that someone was to "inform the officers and crew of the Surveyor that they are to consider themselvesno longer in the service of the United States." Since they were prisoners of the British, I guess they weren't.
On June 25, 1813, the British fleet landed troops at Hampton, Virginia and sacked the city. The Surveyor, now in British service, helped cover the expedition.
And, I had Never Heard of the Ship. --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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