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USN 902978 Privateer PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL Beating off a Boat Attack from HMS ENDYMION off Nantucket Shoals, October 1814

Privateer PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL Beating off a Boat Attack from HMS ENDYMION off Nantucket Shoals, October 1814
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Title: Privateer PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL Beating off a Boat Attack from HMS ENDYMION off Nantucket Shoals, October 1814
Caption: On 11 October 1814, the New York privateer 18-gun brig PRINCE DE NEUFCHATEL, Captain I. Ordronaux, being off the shoals off Nantucket fell in with the British 40-gun frigate HMS ENDYMION, Captain Henry Hope. It falling flat calm, neither vessel able to move, Captain Hope dispatched the boats of the frigate under Lieutenant Abel Hawkins. The boat crews gallantly attempted to possess themselves of the brig but were beaten off with great loss. Lieutenant Hawkins, one midshipman and twenty-six men were killed and two officers and thirty-five men were wounded. In addition to this heavy loss, the launch was overpowered and captured with the remainder of her crew who were made prisoners.
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Catalog #: USN 902978
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Original Creator: Artist, Warren (attributed)
After this Year: 1812
Before this Year: 1815
Original Medium: Watercolor Painting, BW Photo
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