Sarah Ann (1811 ship)

Sarah Ann was a United State privateer commissioned at Baltimore in 1812. She captured a British merchantman in a single-ship action before HMS Rhodian captured Sarah Ann on 16 September 1812.

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

History
United States
Name: Sarah Ann
Owner: Dutton Williams, James Ramsey, Charles Malloy, & John Craig
Builder: Saint Mary's County, Maryland
Launched: 1811[1]
Commissioned: 27 July 1812[1]
Captured: 16 September 1812
General characteristics [1]
Tons burthen: 78 or 230[2] (bm)
Length: 90 ft (27 m)
Beam: 18 ft 10 in (5.7 m)
Complement: 40, 44, or 50
Armament: 1 × 9[3] or 12–pounder[4] gun on a pivot

Prize taking: Captain Richard Moon sailed Sarah Ann on a cruise in August. She encountered the brig Elizabeth, Hanna, master, which was coming from Kingston, Jamaica, bound for London.[5] Elizabeth was armed with ten 12-pounder carronades but she tried to escape. Sarah Ann chased Elizabeth for three hours before Sarah Ann was able to board her.[3] Elizabeth struck after she had four men wounded;[6] Sarah Ann had two men wounded.[3] Sarah Ann took her prize into Savannah, Georgia,[3] arriving there on 2 September. Elizabeth was carrying 323 hogsheads, and some tierces and barrels of sugar.[7] She was also carrying 13 hogsheads and 37 tierces of coffee, and nine hogsheads and 29 barrels of ginger. Elizabeth was four years old.[8] Lloyd's List (LL) reported that an American privateer had taken Elizabeth, Hannah, master, and taken her into Savannah.[9] She was sold for US$65,883.10, though half of the proceeds went for duties and court costs.[10]

Capture: Variable and the boats of Rhodian, Captain John George Boss, captured Sarah Ann, of one 12-pounder gun and 44 men on 16 September 1812.[4][11] The prize was sent into New Providence, The Bahamas, in October 1812.[6][Note 1]

Prisoners: When Sarah Ann arrived at New Providence, six men of her crew where identified as possibly British subjects and were sent to Jamaica on Sappho for further investigation.[14] Captain Moody wrote a letter attesting to the fact that the six were American citizens, five native born and one naturalized.[15] Eventually Vice Admiral Charles Stirling, commander of the Royal Navy's Jamaica Station, had the men reclassified as prisoners of war, not British subjects. He had them transferred to a prison ship for eventual exchange for American prisoners.[16]

Notes, citations, and references

Notes

  1. Some sources give the name of the captor as HMS Statira.[1] However, Statira captured Sally Ann on 16 or 17 September 1812 and sent her into Halifax, Nova Scotia.[12] Sally Ann, a schooner of 124 tons, J.Day, master, had been sailing from New London to St. Bartholomew with a cargo of flour, corn, and tobacco.[13]

Citations

  1. Cranwell & Crane (1940), p. 393.
  2. Kert (2015), p. 181.
  3. Quick (2015), p. 23.
  4. "No. 16684". The London Gazette. 22 December 1812. p. 2571.
  5. Cranwell & Crane (1940), p. 90.
  6. Emmons (1853), pp. 192–193.
  7. Coggeshall (1856), p. 57.
  8. Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political, Volume 12, Number 3749, 15 September 1812.
  9. LL 20 October 1812, №4712/
  10. Kert (2015), p. 50.
  11. Lloyd's List 29 December 1812, №4732.
  12. "No. 16713". The London Gazette. 20 March 1813. p. 579.
  13. Vice-Admiralty Court (1911), p. 154.
  14. Maclay (2004), p. 455.
  15. Congress of the United States (1832), p. 599.
  16. Congress of the United States (1832), p. 634.

References

  • Congress of the United States (1832). American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States ... part 1. 3. Gales and Seaton.
  • Coggeshall, George (1856). History of the American Privateers, and Letters-Of-Marque. New York.
  • Cranwell, John Philips; Crane, William Bowers (1940). Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
  • 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.
  • Kert, Faye M. (2015). Privateering: Patriots and Profits in the War of 1812. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421417479.
  • Maclay, Edgar Stanton (2004) [1899]. A History of American Privateers. New York: D. Appleton.
  • Quick, Stanley (2015). Lion in the Bay: The British Invasion of the Chesapeake, 1813-14. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781612512372.
  • Vice-Admiralty Court, Halifax (1911). American vessels captured by the British during the revolution and war of 1812. Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute.
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