Recovery efforts have been led by Ken Cassavoy.
Bruce County has set aside $100,000 over a three-year period to help cover the HMS General Hunter exhibit and gun deck.
Visitors will be able to walk on the ship's deck and get a sense of history. When finished, the deck will be forty feet long, sixteen feet short of the original 56 feet,
--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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Monday, April 6, 2015
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
200 Years Ago: Napoleon Enters Paris and USS Hornet Captures the HMS Penguin
MARCH 19, 1815: British Commodore Sir Edward Campbell Rich Owens arrives at Kingston, Upper Canada, to assume command of the British Royal Navy station from Commordore Sir James Yeo.
MARCH 20, 1815: Napoleon enters Paris and begins his 100 Day Rule.
MARCH 23, 1815: USS Hornet captures the HMS Penguin.
--Brock-Perry
MARCH 20, 1815: Napoleon enters Paris and begins his 100 Day Rule.
MARCH 23, 1815: USS Hornet captures the HMS Penguin.
--Brock-Perry
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
The First Two HMS Psyches
From Wikipedia.
The HMS Psyche I've been writing about was the third British warship to bear that name.
THE FIRST HMS PSYCHE
Was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate captured from the French in 1805 and sold in 1812.
It was originally a French privateer which got into a fight with the HMS Wilhelmina under the command of Commander Henry Lambert off the coast of India in April 1804. It escaped and later brought into French naval service in June 1804.
In February 1805, it was captured by the HMS San Fiorenzo. Of interest, this ship was under Captain Henry Lambert, the same British officer who had fought it while it was a privateer. It was the taken into British service and renamed the HMS Psyche and captured several prizes and participated in the capture of Mauritius. It was broken up in 1812.
(Either sold or broken up.)
THE SECOND HMS PSYCHE
Was to be a 32-gun, fifth rate frigate. Her frames were constructed in England and sent to Canada but never assembled. Its parts were ordered sold in 1814, though some may have been incorporated in the third HMS Psyche.
--Brock-Perry
The HMS Psyche I've been writing about was the third British warship to bear that name.
THE FIRST HMS PSYCHE
Was a 36-gun fifth rate frigate captured from the French in 1805 and sold in 1812.
It was originally a French privateer which got into a fight with the HMS Wilhelmina under the command of Commander Henry Lambert off the coast of India in April 1804. It escaped and later brought into French naval service in June 1804.
In February 1805, it was captured by the HMS San Fiorenzo. Of interest, this ship was under Captain Henry Lambert, the same British officer who had fought it while it was a privateer. It was the taken into British service and renamed the HMS Psyche and captured several prizes and participated in the capture of Mauritius. It was broken up in 1812.
(Either sold or broken up.)
THE SECOND HMS PSYCHE
Was to be a 32-gun, fifth rate frigate. Her frames were constructed in England and sent to Canada but never assembled. Its parts were ordered sold in 1814, though some may have been incorporated in the third HMS Psyche.
--Brock-Perry
Monday, January 5, 2015
Launch of the HMS Psyche on Dec. 25, 1814-- Part 1: "In Frame"
I already mentioned this, but a little more detail on it.
Launch of the HMS Psyche, 56-gun frigate sent "in frame" from England and assembled in Kingston, Canada.
In the summer of 1813, British Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo struggled to vanquish the growing American fleet in Lake Ontario. As a result, the crown adopted an innovative approach to shipbuilding: sending prefabricated pieces to expedite the construction of warships.
Transports left Chatham Dockyard, England, early in 1814 with four vessels "in frame." Three of the ships never made it past Montreal, but sections of "Frigate B", the Psyche, were laboriously shipped up the St. Lawrence River to Kingston, where shipwrights assembled the parts.
--Brock-Perry
Launch of the HMS Psyche, 56-gun frigate sent "in frame" from England and assembled in Kingston, Canada.
In the summer of 1813, British Commodore Sir James Lucas Yeo struggled to vanquish the growing American fleet in Lake Ontario. As a result, the crown adopted an innovative approach to shipbuilding: sending prefabricated pieces to expedite the construction of warships.
Transports left Chatham Dockyard, England, early in 1814 with four vessels "in frame." Three of the ships never made it past Montreal, but sections of "Frigate B", the Psyche, were laboriously shipped up the St. Lawrence River to Kingston, where shipwrights assembled the parts.
--Brock-Perry
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