Paragon (1813 ship)

For other ships with the same name, see Paragon (ship).

History
United States
NameParagon
OwnerJohn Peters[1]
BuilderC.Turner, Medford, Massachusetts[1]
Launched1813
Commissioned6 July 1813[2]
Captured1813
General characteristics
Tons burthen157[3] (bm)
Sail planSchooner
Complement20 (at capture)
Armament2 × 12-pounder + 2 × 9-pounder guns (at capture)

Paragon was launched at Medford, Massachusetts in 1813. She was commissioned (acquired her letter of marque), and then captured later that year.

Capture: On 14 August 1813, HMS Nymphe's yawl (armed with a carronade), and supported by HMS Curlew's boats, chased a schooner for eight hours off Cape Cod, in little wind, before they captured her. The schooner was the letter-of-marque Paragon, of 157 tons burthen, 20 men, and pierced for 16 guns but carrying four, two 12-pounders and two 9-pounders.[4]

Paragon was under the command of Captain Warren Weston.[3][1][2] She had been sailing from Charlestown to Boston when she was captured. Her cargo consisted of 178 bales of cotton, and 146 barrels and 34 half-barrels of rice. Her captors sent Paragon to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the Vice admiralty court there condemned her in prize.[5]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c Gleason (1929), p. 14.
  2. ^ a b Kert (2015).
  3. ^ a b Emmons (1853), p. 188.
  4. ^ "No. 16799". The London Gazette. 6 November 1813. p. 2167.
  5. ^ Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 145.

References

  • Emmons, George Foster (1853). The navy of the United States, from the commencement, 1775 to 1853; with a brief history of each vessel's service and fate ... Comp. by Lieut. George F. Emmons ... under the authority of the Navy Dept. To which is added a list of private armed vessels, fitted out under the American flag ... also a list of the revenue and coast survey vessels, and principal ocean steamers, belonging to citizens of the United States in 1850. Washington: Gideon & Co.
  • Gleason, Hall (1929). "Old ships and ship building days of Medford". Medford Historical Register. 32 (1): 10–16.
  • Kert, Faye M. (2015). Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 72. ISBN 9781421417479.
  • Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute.