Capture of USS Chesapeake
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The capture of USS Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake, as pa
HMS Shannon preparing to board American frigate Chesapeake, lithograph by Louis Haghe
Captain Philip Broke
Captain James Lawrence
USS Chesapeake, modern painting by F. Muller.
HMS Shannon (1806)
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HMS Shannon was a 38-gun Leda-class fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1806 and served in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. She won a noteworthy naval victory on 1 June 1
Capture of USS Chesapeake
…The capture of USS Chesapeake, also known as the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy frigate HMS Shannon and the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake, as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom. HMS Shannon, commanded…
Shannon (left) capturing the USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813
Illustration of the British boarding Chesapeake. Broke is inaccurately shown wearing a bicorne, when in reality he wore a round hat.
An 1830 representation of HMS Shannon leading the captured American frigate Chesapeake into Halifax Harbour in June 1813.