HMS Nimrod, a Long and Varied Career-- Part 1: A Real Thorn in the Side for Americans

Back when I first came across this ship back on September 4, 2013, there wasn't an article about the ship in Wikipedia.  There is now.

From Wikipedia.

A brig-sloop in the British Navy launched in 1812.  Spent her war years in North American waters where she captured one small privateer, assisted in the capture of another, and captured or destroyed some fifty American vessels.

This ship probably did more damage to the United States than any other British ship.

After the war she captured smugglers and assisted civil authorities.

Wrecked in 1827 and so damaged that the British Navy decided she was not worth repairing.

She was sold, repaired and as a privately owned ship, the Nimrod spent  some 20 more years trading and hauling people between Britain, Charleston, the Mediterranean, India and Australia.  She was last listed in 1851.

--Brock-Perry