The North American Station

[Heneage Dundas]

Calling for All Stout Fellows & Loyal Subjects of His Most Britannic Majesty!

 

 

His Majesty's Royal Navy is commissioning man-o-war at the Halifax Naval Dockyards in the province of Nova Scotia to form part of the Squadron of the Blue under the command of Captain Gibson, RN, Commodore.

 

 

 

(HMS Asia entering Halifax in 1797)

 

This squadron of the Sealords VF's Royal Navy will be a North American based group of players for Naval Action.

 

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Be sure to drop by our website and forum (currently undergoing refurbishment): www.sealordsvf.org

 

 

GOD SAVE THE KING!

[CrossedAnchors_and_Harpoon]

What about Barclay's upper great lakes squadron out of Amherstburg?

[Edward Vernon]

Captain Dundas.......Euryalus eh?  Fine ship, served in her in the 80s. S!

[Heneage Dundas]

What about Barclay's upper great lakes squadron out of Amherstburg?

 

Gibson is a Detroiter, so Amherstberg is right up his alley. So to speak.

[Baggywrinkle]

That's a beautifully observed painting, is it contemporary? All the best in your search for captains.

Baggy

[FLGibsonJr]

Gibson is a Detroiter, so Amherstberg is right up his alley. So to speak.

 

Interestingly Barclay's HMS Detroit was built at Amherstburg.

[Heneage Dundas]

I know the Americans had a shipyard on the Rouge River. Captain Curry commanding around 1798.

[FLGibsonJr]

I crossed the Rouge River on Thu, no sign of Curry.

 

Regards,

 

Gibson

[Charles Caldwell]

No finer group of men you'll meet.... and one which I am proud to sail alongside.

[CrossedAnchors_and_Harpoon]

Having served in the British line at the Battle of Lake Erie reenactment last summer, I would be glad of a chance to sail with you fine fellows whenever I get a chance.

[FLGibsonJr]

Having served in the British line at the Battle of Lake Erie reenactment last summer, I would be glad of a chance to sail with you fine fellows whenever I get a chance.

 

And the results will be different in the Battle of Lake Erie II.  In addition to Amherstburg, we are installing additional ship building capabilities in York and we will have the grandest fleet west of the St. Lawrence.  We intend to rule the lakes and we will not be dislodged.

 

Regards,

 

Gibson

[Heneage Dundas]

Captain Peter Curry was supervising the laying down of a keel for a new U.S. navy vessel in the winter of 1797-98. When Curry returned to Detroit from the shipyard on the River Rouge in January, he discovered that Cornelius Mahoney, the sailor whom he had left in charge of his effects, “had stolen & drank his liquor &ca.” The furious naval captain “thought proper to chastise him” by “beating his servant barbarously,” after which the terrified Mahoney took flight, seeking refuge in the home of Peter Audrain.

[Heneage Dundas]

A bit of background from our friends at Wikipedia(!)

 

The North American Station was formed in 1745 to counter French forces in North America: for the first sixty years the headquarters of the squadron was at Halifax Naval Yard in Nova Scotia.The headquarters for North American Station of the Royal Navy was Halifax from 1758-1818. Land and buildings for a permanent Naval Yard were purchased by the Royal Naval Dockyard, Halifax in 1758 and the Yard was officially commissioned in 1759. The Yard served as the main base for the British Royal Navy in North American during the Seven Years' War, the American Revolution, the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812.

[Heneage Dundas]

It is with great pleasure that I announce the assignment of Captain Sir Samuel Hood to His Majesty's squadron of the Blue on the North American Station!

 

Three cheers for Captain Hood, lads! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

[Capt Schroder]

Many men who fill our ranks may take pride in a well established group as ours to seek greater glory and an honorable name upon ye. Join the Fleet lads! and be remembered

[UltrafastPED]

Captain Peter Curry was supervising the laying down of a keel for a new U.S. navy vessel in the winter of 1797-98."

This would be the armed transport brig President Adams; it was built by and for the US Army. From 1802 until its surrender at the capitulation of General Hull on August 16, 1812, it was commanded by a US Army officer, Henry B. Brevoort. According to Dewitt Clinton's "Erie Canal journal", it was armed with 4 cannon in 1810. The British armed her with six 6 pounders, renaming her HMS Detroit. She was captured in a daring American raid led by US Navy Lt. Elliott, October 12, 1812. She was fought over, and finally burned.

She was apparently transferred from the US Army to the Navy sometime in the spring of 1812.

Thus she had two names, Adams & Detroit, and saw service in three armed services: US Army, US Navy, and the British Navy.

I've been researching the Adams since discovering that her mate & sailing master was William Steers (1772-1815), who later served as pilot of the Lawrence during the Battle of Lake Erie, and afterwards as pilot of the Niagara until released from the US Navy in April of 1815.