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The Frolic was a brig which sank northeast of Point Cabrillo, near Caspar, California.Historians have called it "the most significant shipwreck on the west coast". [2] Its shipwreck site, later known as "Pottery Cove" or "Frolic Cove", [3] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Frolic (brig) in 1991.
With both vessels incapable of being handled, the Wasp drew slightly ahead and the Frolic collided with the American ship. The Wasp fired a final raking broadside which delivered the coup de grâce. At 11:52 am, American sailors boarded the Frolic to find that every British officer and over half the crew, 90 men, were wounded or dead. [5]
Frolic sank another British merchant ship on 3 April 1814. (This may have been Little Fox. [3]) While in the Florida Strait on 20 April 1814, Frolic encountered the British 36-gun frigate HMS Orpheus and 12-gun schooner HMS Shelburne. Frolic beat away to southward, making for the coast of Cuba as the two British ships gave chase.
Frolic: 1850 An opium-trading brig wrecked near Point Cabrillo Light in 1850. Frolic was the subject of a 2003 episode of Deep Sea Detectives. Josephine Woolcot: 1886 A schooner wrecked by a storm off Mendocino City. Ship broke in half mid ship into two sections – bow and two mast / transon and two mast, sank with fantail pointing northwest ...
But its three-masted timber sailing ship Endurance fell victim to the treacherous Weddell Sea, becoming ensnared in pack ice in January 1915. It was progressively crushed and sank 10 months later.
See also Capture of HMS Frolic. The second HMS Frolic (1820) was a 10-gun 236 ton brig-sloop launched in 1820 and sold 1838. The third HMS Frolic (1842) was a 16-gun 511 ton sloop launched in 1842 and sold 1864. The fourth HMS Frolic (1872) was a composite screw gunboat launched in 1872. Converted to a drillship in 1888.
Nearly two years after an Australian research team made the claim that a Rhode Island shipwreck was Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour, the team says they have more evidence to back up their assertion ...
An old shipwreck, believed to be the World War I vessel the SS Tobol, has been uncovered off the northeast coast of Scotland, solving what discoverers say is a "107-year-old maritime mystery."