HMS Tenedos (1812) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812 and saw action on the eastern American coast during the War of 1812.
Service
editTenedos, part of a fleet under the command of Sir Philip Broke, was assigned to patrol of the coast near Boston Harbor in April 1812.[1] In August of the same year, the Tenedos lost seven men in an engagement with irregular forces off Mount Desert Island, Maine.[2]
While harbored at Halifax, Nova Scotia Tenedos during a severe winter storm on 12 November, broke free of her moorings and almost collided with two ships nearby.[3]
The brig Sarah, R.Pendergrast, master, which had been sailing from New York to Amsterdam when HMS Tenedos captured her on 19 February 1813. Sarah had been carrying a cargo of 425 bales of cotton, 186 barrels of post ashes, and 3000 pipe staves.[4]
Tenedos was part of a fleet that captured the USS President on 15 January 1815, just outside New York Harbor.[5][6]
On 17 February 1815 the War of 1812 ended when the US Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent and Tenedos returned one month later from patrolling the Eastern seaboard to Halifax in Nova Scotia for the final time. In August 1815, Tenedos returned home to Chatham. She was used as a convict hulk at the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda from 1843 and was broken up in 1875.[7]
See also
edit- Stephen Decatur, Commodore in command of USS President at the time of its capture.
Citations
edit- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 108
- ^ Simpson. The Maine Islands in Story and Legend. pp. 200–202.
- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 162
- ^ Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 155.
- ^ Hickey, 1989, p. 216
- ^ McCranie, 2011, p. 269
- ^ Kent History Forum, 2019, Essay
References
edit- Hickey, Donald R. (1989). The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06059-5.
- Simpson, Dorothy (1987). The Maine Islands in Story and Legend. Nobleboro, Maine: Blackberry Books. ISBN 0-942396-51-0
- McCranie, Kevin D. (2011). Utmost Gallantry: The U.S. and Royal Navies at Sea in the War of 1812. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-61251-063-7.
- "HMS Tenedos (1812 - 1875)". The Kent History Forum. 2019. Retrieved April 15, 2021.
- Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute. hdl:2027/mdp.39015070578847.