Add to ORKGIn the second year of the second war with England, known as the War of 1812, keels were laid for a number of fighting craft for the United States navy. Among them was that of a sloop of war which. was launched at New York, September 19, 1813, seventy-two working days after the keel was laid. Her dimensions were, length 118 feet, breadth of beam 32 feet, depth of hold 14 feet. The sloop had 26 gun-ports, was of 509 tons, and was classed next below a frigate. She was christened Peacock
Offshore dueling Historical battle introduced to young readers On May 9, 1862, two vessels faced ...
With the appointment of Alexander Cochrane to Commander of the North American Squadron in the summer...
In 1844, the USS Princeton was the most technologically sophisticated warship in the world. Its capt...
U. S. S. Peacock in the War of 1812: A Fight off the Florida Coast T. Frederick Davis The St. Joseph...
The War of 1812 was a conflict between Great Britain and the United States. It evolved from the Napo...
All of Brigadier General John M. Brannan’s Union soldiers and their arms, horses, and rations had re...
A reprint from Sprague\u27s Journal of Maine History, vol. II, no. 2, 1914 on the naval battle betwe...
Naval warfare is one of civilization\u27s oldest sciences; its axioms modified as progress in propul...
Classified as a bark-rigged sloop-of-war known as “hull 290,” built by Laird Shipbuilders in England...
In the last year of the Civil War, the Union forces took advantage of their seapower to carry the co...
The U.S.S. Oglethorpe (AKA-1 00), was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny...
When Britain lost control of Florida in 1783 to Spain, many English merchants and public officials, ...
During the Civil War, the Union Navy’s primary mission was to prevent the South from marketing her p...
Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Commanding, South Atlantic Blocking Squadron, aboard U.S.S. Waba...
Full title is "A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Gre...
Offshore dueling Historical battle introduced to young readers On May 9, 1862, two vessels faced ...
With the appointment of Alexander Cochrane to Commander of the North American Squadron in the summer...
In 1844, the USS Princeton was the most technologically sophisticated warship in the world. Its capt...
U. S. S. Peacock in the War of 1812: A Fight off the Florida Coast T. Frederick Davis The St. Joseph...
The War of 1812 was a conflict between Great Britain and the United States. It evolved from the Napo...
All of Brigadier General John M. Brannan’s Union soldiers and their arms, horses, and rations had re...
A reprint from Sprague\u27s Journal of Maine History, vol. II, no. 2, 1914 on the naval battle betwe...
Naval warfare is one of civilization\u27s oldest sciences; its axioms modified as progress in propul...
Classified as a bark-rigged sloop-of-war known as “hull 290,” built by Laird Shipbuilders in England...
In the last year of the Civil War, the Union forces took advantage of their seapower to carry the co...
The U.S.S. Oglethorpe (AKA-1 00), was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny...
When Britain lost control of Florida in 1783 to Spain, many English merchants and public officials, ...
During the Civil War, the Union Navy’s primary mission was to prevent the South from marketing her p...
Samuel Francis DuPont, Rear Admiral Commanding, South Atlantic Blocking Squadron, aboard U.S.S. Waba...
Full title is "A Full and Correct Account of the Chief Naval Occurrences of the Late War Between Gre...
Offshore dueling Historical battle introduced to young readers On May 9, 1862, two vessels faced ...
With the appointment of Alexander Cochrane to Commander of the North American Squadron in the summer...
In 1844, the USS Princeton was the most technologically sophisticated warship in the world. Its capt...