American privateer Holkar

History
Name: Holkar
Operator: J. Rowland
Fate: Run ashore and destroyed, 11 May 1813
General characteristics
Class and type: Brig
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 150 men[1]
Armament: 16 guns[1]

Holkar was an American privateer active during the War of 1812, which, after making several captures, was destroyed by HMS Orpheus on 11 May 1813.[2]

Commanded by J. Rowland,[1] on 30 November 1812 Holkar captured the 220-ton 10-gun British brig Emu, under the command of Lieutenant Alexander Bissett. Emu was transporting 49 female convicts to Australia. The convicts and crew were eventually put ashore at Porto Grande on São Vicente, Cape Verde,[3] and the ship brought into Newport.[4][5]

In early 1813 Holkar captured the 600-ton British ship Aurora, which was sailing from Liverpool to Pernambuco with a cargo of dry goods (later valued at $350,000), bringing her into Newport, Rhode Island.[6]

Holkar also captured the British privateer schooner Richard off Anguilla, taking her into Savannah, Georgia,[7] and an unknown 14-gun brig and two other merchant ships were taken to New York.[8]

In May 1813, while in Long Island Sound, she was chased by the British frigate HMS Orpheus, commanded by Captain Hugh Pigot, and run aground, before being destroyed by cannon fire.[8]

Citations and references

Citations
  1. 1 2 3 Snow (1897), p.145
  2. ↑ "No. 16750". The London Gazette. 6 July 1813. p. 1334.
  3. ↑ "Ships List – E". The Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie Archive, Macquarie University. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Snow (1897), p.177
  5. ↑ Bateson, p.192.
  6. ↑ Snow (1897), p.176
  7. ↑ Snow (1897), pp.181–182.
  8. 1 2 Maclay (1924), pp.441–442.
References
  • Bateson, Charles (1974). The Convict Ships, 1787-1868. Sydney. ISBN 0-85174-195-9.
  • Maclay, Edgar Stanton (1924). A history of American privateers. Appleton.
  • Snow, William Cory (1897). The War of 1812 : A part of its History. Rhode Island Historical Society. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
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