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Capture of USS Chesapeake
The Capture of USS ''Chesapeake'', or the Battle of Boston Harbor, was fought on 1 June 1813, between the Royal Navy's frigate HMS ''Shannon'' and American frigate USS ''Chesapeake'', as part of the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. The ''Chesapeake'' was captured in a brief but intense action in which over 80 men were killed. This was the only frigate action of the war in which there was no preponderance of force on either side.
At Boston, Captain James Lawrence took command of ''Chesapeake'' on 20 May 1813, and on 1 June, put to sea to meet the waiting HMS ''Shannon'', the frigate whose written challenge had just missed ''Chesapeake''s sailing. ''Chesapeake'' suffered early in the exchange of gunfire, having her wheel and fore topsail halyard shot away, rendering her unmanoeuvrable. Lawrence himself was mortally wounded and was carried below. The American crew struggled to carry out their captain's last order, "Don't give up the ship!", but the British boarding party overwhelmed them. The battle was notably intense but of short duration, lasting ten to fifteen minutes, in which time 252 men were killed or wounded. ''Shannon''s Captain Philip Broke was severely injured in fighting on the forecastle. ''Chesapeake'' and her crew were taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the sailors were imprisoned; the ship was repaired and taken into service by the Royal Navy. She was sold at Portsmouth, England in 1819 and broken up. Surviving timbers were used to build the nearby Chesapeake Mill in Wickham and can be seen and visited to this day.
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