USS Sea Horse (1812)
| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Sea Horse |
| Acquired | 1812 by purchase |
| Homeport | New Orleans |
| Fate | Scuttled; December 13, 1814 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Schooner |
| Complement | 14 officers and crew |
| Armament | 1 × 6-pounder gun[1] |
The first USS Sea Horse was a one-gun schooner that the Navy purchased in 1812 for service on Lake Borgne, near New Orleans, Louisiana. She was one of 15 vessels[citation needed] available to Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson in New Orleans at the outbreak of war with Britain in 1812. She saw action as a tender to a squadron of gunboats, under the command of Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby Jones, that in December 1814 opposed the British advance on New Orleans.[2][self-published source] On the afternoon of December 13, 1814, at 2:00pm Jones despatched Sea Horse to a store house, to remove its contents, to prevent capture by the British. [3]
At 3:45pm, Sea Horse was moored at Bay St Louis next to a store house and a battery of two 6–pounder cannons. There she repelled two attacks by armed British longboats. Faced with overwhelming force, Sailing Master William Johnson, her commanding officer, then beached her at 7:30pm and burned her to prevent her capture.[4]
See also[]
Citations[]
- ^ "U. S. Naval Squadron—New Orleans, 1814".
- ^ Carstens, Patrick (2011). Searching For the Forgotten War - 1812: United States of America. Xlibris. ISBN 978-1456867539.
- ^ Roosevelt 1900, p. 74.
- ^ Letter from Jones to Patterson dated 12 March 1815, within Brannan (ed). pp.487-490
References[]
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- Brannan, John, ed. (1823). Official letters of the military and naval officers of the United States : during the war with Great Britain in the years 1812, 13, 14, & 15. Washington, D.C.: Way & Gideon. OCLC 1083481275.
- Roosevelt, Theodore (1900). The Naval War of 1812. II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
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