American Light and Medium Frigates 1794-1836 by Mark Lardas
Author:Mark Lardas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: American Light and Medium Frigates 1794–1836
ISBN: 9781780963464
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-06T16:00:00+00:00
Commodore James Barron, one of the most senior officers in the US Navy, was suspended from the service for his role in the Chesapeake affair. (USNHF)
Then Essex was finally run to earth. In January 1814 it was trapped in Valparaiso by two British frigates, Phoebe and Cherub. On March 28, 1814, Porter left port, during a storm. Losing a mast, he was then attacked by both British frigates while in neutral territorial waters. While he blamed the defeat on the carronade armament, he would have lost regardless, as he was fighting two ships while partially disabled.
By 1814, the big frigates still could muscle their way out to sea, and the sloops-of-war occasionally slipped out, but the smaller frigates found themselves trapped. Constellation finished its refit only to be caught in the Chesapeake estuary. It finished the war as a guard ship at Baltimore. Macedonian was blockaded in Connecticut, Congress in Portsmouth. Adams got to sea in January 1814, only to get trapped in the Penobscot River in August. It was burned on September 3, 1814, to prevent capture. The only frigate at sea other than the 24lb frigates was John Adams. It was being used as a cartel ship, carrying American diplomats to Europe and messages back. Its diplomatic duties placed it outside the war.
The British captured Washington, D.C., on August 24, 1814, but prior to British occupation the Navy burned the ships in the Washington Navy Yard. New York, General Greene, and Boston were all destroyed.
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