HMS Nimrod-- Part 3: Capturing American Prizes

The Nimrod arrived in North America on 22 September and then was involved in convoy duty.  Then there were some at sea captures.

A big capture came on 17 July 1813, when the Nimrod, the HMS Maidstone (36-gun Fifth Rate frigate) and HMS Poictiers (a 74-gun Third Rate Ship of the Line) captured the 20-gun, 140-man American privateer Yorktown, Captain  T.W. Story, which had taken eleven prizes.  The chase took four hours.

From then until December, the Nimrod captured eight more vessels, three of those times with the Poictiers and Maidstone.

On 29 January 1814, the Nimrod bombarded the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts.  This has been the subject of the blog posts from earlier in the week.

--Brock-Perry