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HMS St Lawrence (1813)
HMS ''St Lawrence'' was a 14-gun schooner of the Royal Navy. She had been built in 1808 in St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland for Thomas Tennant and sold to Philadelphians in 1810.〔Footner (1998), 111〕 During the War of 1812 she was the American privateer ''Atlas''. The British captured her in 1813 and renamed her ''St Lawrence''. The American privateer ''Chasseur'' recaptured her in 1815, and then re-recaptured her.
==Privateer==
The ''Atlas'' had a home port of Philadelphia and took to sea early in the war under the command of Captain David Maffitt. She was armed with 12 short 9-pounders and one long 9-pounder, and had a crew of 104 men. In July 1812, she cleared the Capes of the Delaware, and when two days out she took the brig ''Tulip'', Captain Monk, just out from New York. On 5 August ''Atlas'' captured the ''Pursuit'', of 450 tons, carrying 16 guns and a crew of 35 men, and the ''Planter'', of 280 tons, carrying 12 12-pounders and a crew of 15 men. Both ships were thirty days out from Surinam, bound for London, with a cargo of coffee, cotton, cocoa, and six hundred hogsheads of sugar. ''Atlas'', which had sailed between the two vessels and fired broadsides from both sides, had been damaged in the fighting before the two vessels struck. Still, ''Atlas'' and her two prizes made it safely back to Philadelphia.〔Maclay (1899), 251-254.〕〔Coggeshall (1856), 79-80.〕
On a cruise early in the summer of 1813, ''Atlas'' took shelter in Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, where she found the 18-gun privateer ''Anaconda'', out of New York, Captain Nathaniel Shaler commanding. Here, on 12 July, a British squadron under Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, that included HMS ''Highflyer'', herself a former American privateer, captured the two vessels. The British took both vessels into service, the ''Anaconda'' as , and ''Atlas'' as HMS ''St Lawrence''.〔Maclay (1899), pp.261-262.〕〔James (1859), pp.95-96.〕
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