History
United States
NamePrice
Owner
  • 1812:James and William Bosley
  • 1813:James and William Bosley, John J. Palmer, and J. K. Hamilton
BuilderDorchester County, Maryland
Launched1812
CapturedSeptember 1813
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen278 (bm)
Length102 ft 6 in (31.2 m)
Beam25 ft 0 in (7.6 m)
Sail planSchooner
Complement40
Armament5 × 6-pounder guns

Ned was a schooner launched in Maryland in 1812. She sailed as a letter of marque and took one prize in a single-ship action. The Royal Navy captured her in July 1813.

Career

Captain Joseph Dawson commissioned Ned as a letter of marque on 10 October 1812.[1] He then sailed for France. Ned was returning to the United States when she encountered Malvina, of 10 guns, T. Smith, master at 44°54′N 15°0′W / 44.900°N 15.000°W / 44.900; -15.000 as Malvina was returning to London from the Mediterranean. After an action of 50 minutes Malvina struck. Captain Smith, of Malvina was killed; Ned had seven men wounded. Ned arrived back at Baltimore on 26 April 1813.[2] Malvina reached Ocracoke,[1] or Wilmington, North Carolina.[3] Captain William Hackett commissioned Ned on 29 July 1813 at New York.[1] He then sailed for France.

Fate

HMS Royalist captured Ned on 6/7 September 1813 off Arcasson after having chased her for four days. Captain James John Gordon Bremer described his prize as "a very fine copper-bottomed schooner, of two hundred and eighty tons, pierced for sixteen, and mounting six guns, and having forty-five men on board."[4] On 21 September Lloyd's List reported that Ned, Hatchet, master, sailing from New York to Bordeaux, and prize to Royalist, had come into Plymouth.[5] A second report stated that Ned had arrived at Plymouth on 19 September. She had originally left New York on 1 August to avoid an expected American Government embargo on US ports.[6]

Citations

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cranwell & Crane (1940), p. 389.
  2. ↑ Lloyd's List (LL) 2 July 1813, №4783.
  3. ↑ Anon. (1815), p. 384.
  4. ↑ "No. 16776". The London Gazette. 18 September 1813. p. 1860.
  5. ↑ LL 21 September 1813, №4806.
  6. ↑ LL 24 September 1813, №4807.

References

  • Anon. (1815). The History of the War, Between the United States and Great-Britain, which Commenced in June, 1812, and Closed in Feb. 1815 ...: Comp. Chiefly from Public Documents. With an Appendix, Containing the Correspondence which Passed ... in Treating for Peace. To which is Added, the Treaty of Peace, and a List of Vessels Taken from G. Britain During the War. B. & J. Russell.
  • Cranwell, John Philips; Crane, William Bowers (1940). Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
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