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The crew of the Snapdragon after its capture were sent to Dartmoor Prison in Devon as prisoners of war. Five of the crew of the Snapdragon are buried in the American Prisoner of War Cemetery at the prison. http://sril.gradeless.com/dartmoor/d_pow.htm For a list of all American prisoners of war held ...

Managed to find a book about the Snapdragon's commanding officer, Otway Burns, who missed the final fateful cruise of the vessel as he was suffering from rheumatism. However for the cruise of 20 January 1814 to 11 April a journal survives which includes a list of the crew on the cruise. https://arch...

Further evidence the authorities regarded the Hornet as having been lost on 10 September 1829 as the New York state newspaper the The Schenectady cabinet of February 8, 1830 reprinted a report that was originally carried in the Washington DC newspaper The United States Telegraph: United States Ship ...

Journals of the House of Commons, Volume 49 (pages 76-77) has a table showing what ships were building or being repaired at each of the Royal Dockyards. Its dated 28 January 1794 which means most of vessel would have been at the dockyards in 1793. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fUEzAQAAMAAJ&...

The tomb in St James' Churchyard, Teignmouth also has this below the inscription for Captain James Wallace: Also Thomas Luny Esq., Marine Artist of West Teignmouth, half Brother of the above Who departed this life Sept 29th 1837, Aged 79 years This tomb is erected by his grateful niece, Daughter of ...

There appears to be two camps as to the date; either 10 September 1829 or the generally accepted 29 September 1829. Both Threedecks and Wikipedia give 29 September as the date the Hornet foundered in a storm off Tampico. Threedecks uses the book Sailing Warships of the US Navy as its authority whils...

In the Royal Navy, the gun count was additionally used to determine the composition of boarding parties, which were made up of boarders, sail-trimmers and fire-men. Thus we have for a First Rate of 100 guns - Boarders ; four men from each gun on the lower deck, three from each gun on the middle deck...

1) The USS Philadelphia is named after the city where it was built 2) Philadelphia, USA is named after the Greek, Roman and Byzantine city of Philadelphia in Asia Minor (Turkey), one of the seven churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation. 3) The name therefore has considerable Christian connotati...

I have been unable to find any English language sources that state what the USS Philadelphia was renamed following its capture by Tripoli. The Americans in contemporary documents still refer to the ship as the Philadelphia even after its capture. Are there any Turkish or Arabic sources that actually...

The Karteria (Endurance), previously the Perseverance, the first steam powered vessel to actually see action, was built for the Greek Revolutionary Navy at the Brent Shipyard, Deptford in 1825.

http://thegreekobserver.com/greece/culture/article/20761/history-karteria-endurance/