Philip Broke
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Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke, 1st Baronet, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During his lifetime, he was o
Portrait by Samuel Lane
Illustration of the British boarding Chesapeake. Broke is inaccurately shown wearing a bicorne rather than a round hat.
Painting of Shannon leading the captured Chesapeake into Halifax
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
Philip Broke
…and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. During his lifetime, he was often referred to as "Broke of the Shannon", a reference to his notable command of HMS Shannon. Broke's most famous military achievement was defeating and capturing the USS Chesapeake in 1813. Broke was born at Broke Hall, Nacton, near Ipswich…
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