Ned (1812 ship)

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.

History
United States
Name: Price
Owner:
  • 1812:James and William Bosley
  • 1813:James and William Bosley, John J. Palmer, and J. K. Hamilton
Builder: Dorchester County, Maryland
Launched: 1812
Captured: September 1813
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen: 278 (bm)
Length: 102 ft 6 in (31.2 m)
Beam: 25 ft 0 in (7.6 m)
Sail plan: Schooner
Complement: 40
Armament: 5 × 6-pounder guns

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, Smith, master at 44°54′N 15°0′W 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][Note 1]

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]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. Unfortunately, at the time there were two Malvinas with masters named Smith. Both were launched at Aberdeen. Currently it has not been possible to disambiguate the two.

Citations

  1. Cranwell & Crane (1940), p. 389.
  2. Lloyd's List (LL) 2 July 1813, №4783.
  3. History... (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

  • 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.
  • 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. (1815) (B. & J. Russell).
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