American Privateer Hyder Ali

I couple posts ago, I wrote that the HMS Boxer's cannons were placed on the privateer Hyder Ali which went on what appears to be just one cruise with a little bit of success, not much, before it was captured by a British frigate HMS Owen  Glendour.

From Three Decks.org.

HYDER ALI

I also thought this was kind of a strange name for an American ship.  Sounded more Middle Eastern.

12 guns of American registry.  Captured May 1814.

Fifty-man crew under command of  Captain (privateer) R. Thorndike.

Taken by Owen Glendower.

367 tons, twelve 18-odr. carronades, two long 18-pdrs., some from the captured HMS Boxer.

There is a report saying that when captured, the Hyder Ali had 30 men after a ten-hour chase near the Nicobar Islands.  Before the capture, the Hyder Ali had been chased for 3 days by HMS  Salsette, but got away.

The Nicobar Islands are over by Southeast Asia by the Indian Ocean.

--Brock-Perry