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.
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| Name | Price |
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| 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, of 10 guns, T. 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] 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
- Cranwell & Crane (1940), p. 389.
- Lloyd's List (LL) 2 July 1813, №4783.
- Anon. (1815), p. 384.
- "No. 16776". The London Gazette. 18 September 1813. p. 1860.
- LL 21 September 1813, №4806.
- 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.