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
Shannon (left) capturing the USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813
John Christian Schetky's The Shannon and the Chesapeake, which depicts the engagement between Chesapeake and Shannon
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.
USS Chesapeake (1799)
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Chesapeake was a 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. She was one of the original six frigates whose construction was authorized by the Naval Act of 1794. Joshua
HMS Shannon (1806)
…and the War of 1812. She won a noteworthy naval victory on 1 June 1813, during the latter conflict, when she captured the United States Navy frigate USS Chesapeake in a bloody battle. Shannon was an 18-pounder Leda-class frigate. The class was based on the lines of the captured French 38-gun frigate Hébé, a design…
USS Chesapeake, painting by F. Muller (early 1900s)
Chesapeake fires her only shot upon Leopard
Captain James Lawrence
1813 illustration of the battle between Shannon and Chesapeake