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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 ...
Replica of 1847 "Baltimore Clipper" Californian built in 1984. 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. These vessels may also ...
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 ...
Privateer ships of the United States. ... Pride of Baltimore; R. HMS Shelburne (1813) Racer (privateer) Rambler (1813 ship) Rapid (privateer) USS Rattlesnake (1813)
USS Spitfire was the former Baltimore privateer Grampus that the United States Navy purchased. She was a heavily armed schooner built for service in the War of 1812, but did not see service until the Barbary Wars when she was sent with the American fleet to the Mediterranean to force an end to piracy of American ships.
USS Lynx, a 6-gun Baltimore Clipper rigged schooner, was built for the United States Navy by James Owner of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., in 1814, intended for service in one of the two raiding squadrons being built as part of President James Madison's administration’s plan to establish a more effective Navy, one capable not only of breaking the British naval blockade, but also of raising ...
In 1821, under the rules of prize-money, she shared in the distribution of head-money arising from the capture of American gun-boats and sundry bales of cotton at the Battle of Lake Borgne on 14 December 1814. [e] In February 1815 Shelburne and Anaconda, which was also a former American privateer, cruised off the Florida coast north of Havana.