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The Pride of Baltimore was a reproduction of a typical early 19th-century "Baltimore clipper" topsail schooner, commissioned to represent Baltimore, Maryland. This was a style of vessel made famous by its success as a privateer commerce raider, a small warship in the War of 1812 (1812–1815) against British merchant shipping and the world-wide ...
A Baltimore clipper is a fast sailing ship historically built on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States, especially at the port of Baltimore, Maryland. An early form of clipper , the name is most commonly applied to two-masted schooners and brigantines .
On Chasseur ' s return to Baltimore on 15 April 1815, Niles' Register called the ship the "Pride of Baltimore". [10] She resumed her merchant career in the China trade . In 1816, she was sold to foreign investors and thereafter disappears from records.
Comet, an American schooner, was built in 1810 at Baltimore, Maryland.She was owned by "a group of wealthy Baltimore investors." [1] Under Captain Thomas Boyle, who was a part owner of the schooner, Comet sailed from July 1812 [2] to March 1814 as a privateer, which was a type of ships licensed by the United States during the War of 1812 to harass the British merchant vessels and divest their ...
Surprise was a highly successful American privateer schooner. She was launched in 1813 and operated out of Baltimore. She captured over 40 British vessels during her brief career. In one case the capture followed a single-ship action. She was wrecked in April 1815, shortly after the end of the War of 1812.
On 28 November the Baltimore privateer Tom (fourteen 12 and 18-pounder carronades, two 9-pounder guns, and 130 men) was in company with Bona when they encountered the Falmouth mail packet Townshend, M'Coy, master, about seven leagues west of Barbados. After an engagement of an hour and a half, Townshend struck. She had her master killed, three ...
HMS Superieure was the French privateer Supérieure, which was built in 1801 in Baltimore, Maryland, and which the British captured in 1803 in the West Indies, and took into the Royal Navy. She spent most of her career on the Jamaica and Leeward Islands stations, where she captured numerous privateers.
The Baltimore privateer Surprise encountered Star on 28 January 1815 at After a single-ship action that lasted an hour Surprise captured Star . Star had a crew of 26 men and was armed with eight 12-pounder carronades; she had one man killed and one wounded before she struck .