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Chasseur (1812 clipper)
''Chasseur'' was a Baltimore clipper commanded by Captain Thomas Boyle, an American privateer. She sailed from Fells Point in Baltimore, where she had been launched from Thomas Kemp's shipyard in 1812. On his first voyage as master of ''Chasseur'' in 1814, Boyle unexpectedly sailed east, directly to the British Isles, where he harassed the British merchant fleet.
Boyle sent a notice to King George III by way of a captured merchant vessel that he had released for the purpose. The notice, he commanded, was to be posted on the door of Lloyd's of London, the shipping underwriters. In it he declared that the entire British Isles were under naval blockade by ''Chasseur'' alone. This affront sent the shipping community into panic and caused the Admiralty to call vessels home from the American war to guard merchant ships which had to sail in convoys. In all, ''Chasseur'' captured or sank 17 vessels before returning home.
On February 26, 1815, just off Havana, ''Chasseur'' took HMS ''St Lawrence''. ''Chasseur'' carried 14 guns and 102 men, while ''St Lawrence'' carried 13 guns and 76 men. The intense action lasted only about 15 minutes, during which ''St Lawrence'' suffered six men killed and 17 wounded, several of them mortally. (According to American accounts, the English had 15 killed and 25 wounded.) ''Chasseur'' had five killed and eight wounded, including her captain. Both vessels were badly damaged. Captain Boyle, of ''Chasseur'', made a cartel of ''St Lawrence'' and sent her and her crew into Havana as his prize.
=="Pride of Baltimore"==
(詳細はNiles' Register'' called the ship the "Pride of Baltimore". Two replica ships were modeled on ''Chasseur'' and both were named ''Pride of Baltimore''.
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