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  USS Nonsuch
Nonsuch, a small ship built at Wivenhoe on Essex in England in 1650, helped to establish the Hudson's Bay Company.
Nonsuch, an armed schooner, was built in 1812 in Baltimore, Md. Her owner, George Stiles and Company, requested a eommission for Nonsuch as a letter of marque 29 June 1812.
Nonsuch fought these two ships for three hours in an extremely furious battle, causing great confusion and killing or wounding a considerable number of the enemy.
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 DANIEL TURNER (NAVAL OFFICER) FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On 14 March 1813, two days after receiving his commission as a lieutenant, Turner was sent to Sackett's_Harbor,_New_York, located on the shores of Lake_Erie.
Between 1819 and 1824, Turner returned to sea in the schooner ''Nonsuch'' attached to a squadron commanded again by Oliver Hazard Perry.
During the remaining years of Turner's assignment to ''Nonsuch'', his ship worked along the east coast of the United States, patrolled in the West Indies to suppress piracy, and made a brief cruise to the Mediterranean in 1824.
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 A Discussion on the USS Carolina and Crew
On 16 February 1813, he wrote to Secretary of the Navy William Jones: "The Schooner Carolina is ready for Sea, half-manned, and requires an Active Lieutenant for a Commander.
One of the two surgeons was for the Carolina as the other was need for USS Nonsuch, a schooner on the Charleston station whose commander had refused to cruise without one.
This was not unprecedented as Capt. Bainbridge of the USS Constitution sent many of his sailors to LT Perry on Lake Erie because the blockade in Boston.
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 USS Nonsuch (1813) - Definition, explanation
USS Nonsuch was an armed schooner in the United States Navy during the War of 1812.
Nonsuch was built in 1812 in Baltimore, Maryland.
In 1819, she, with frigates John Adams and Constellation, sailed in a squadron under Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, for the Orinoco River, Venezuela, arriving 15 July to discourage piracy while still maintaining friendly relations with Venezuela and the Republic of Buenos Aires.
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 Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - Chronologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
USS Dace and Darter attack Atago, Takao, and Maya in Palawan Passage.
USS Princeton sunk east of Philippines, Musashi in Sibuyan Sea, USS Tang in Formosa Strait.
USS Memphis thrown ashore at Santo Domingo by seismic waves caused by undersea earthquake; 40 crew killed.
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 Oliver Hazard Perry
In November, 1813 Perry resumed duties with the gunboat flotilla at Newport; however, his promotion to captain, dated September 10, 1813, and his elevated status with the Navy Department and the country, assured that it would be a temporary assignment.
With his mission success-fully completed Perry rejoined the Nonsuch, confident that he had escaped the fever and anxious for a quick passage back to the fresh breezes at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
The crew of the Nonsuch frantically pushed themselves and their vessel in an effort to reach Port of Spain, but their efforts fell short by only a few miles.
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 The FReeper Foxhole Revisits The Burning of Washington (8/24/1814) - August 20th, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The USS Chesapeake, a 36-gun frigate, was launched 2 December 1799 by Gosport Navy Yard and commissioned early in the following year, Captain J. Barron in command.
With the outbreak of the War of 1812, for which Chesapeake 's encounter with Leopard was one of a number of emotional preparations, Chesapeake was outfitted at Boston for a lengthy Atlantic cruise.
Between 13 December 1812 and 9 April 1813, she ranged from the West Indies to Africa, taking as prizes five British merchantmen, and through skillful seamanship, evading the pursuit of a British 74 ship of the line.
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 Model Shipwright Author Title Keyword Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
USS Constitution : a 1/384 scale scenic model of the celebrated US frigate "Old Ironsides".
Model Shipwright 1993; No. 84:P. Abstract: USS Enterprise was an aircraft carrier serving throughout Worl War II.
Abstract: Built 1650 in Essex, Nonsuch entered the Navy in 1654.
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 Western Reserve Historical Society
Biographical sketch, correspondence, certificates of membership in various organizations, a speech given at a Grand Army of the Republic meeting, notes from a cruise of the Pacific Ocean, including a journal kept by Mrs.
Includes letters from Lewis Bond, J.L. Comstock, Paul Hamilton (U.S. Secretary of the Navy), Henry Hart, Samuel Mitchill, Anthony Shane, Amos Spafford, Caleb Stark, and Two Stickney, and a declaration to the Delaware Tribe (1812) by William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory.
Letterbook as commander of various ships, correspondence relating to naval matters, logbook kept by Turner while on board USS Nonsuch, commanded by his uncle, Daniel Turner, during an expedition which sought to end piracy near Venezuela, and logbook kept on board USS Cyane off the coast of Brazil.
www.history.navy.mil /sources/oh/wrh.htm   (517 words)

  
 GLS Downward Bound's Subject Index to Inland Seas
Explosion on the USS Michigan by Herbert R. Spencer 16.1(1960): 32-35
Nonsuch, 1972 by Richard A. Belford 28.2(1972): 150
U.S.S. Tigress - H.M.S. Confiance, 1813 -1831 by Elsie McLeod Jury 28.1(1972): 3-16
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 CNRS - TNM/LMN Index 2001
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 Maryland Historical Society Library: Guide to the Manuscript Collections, Part B
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