CHESAPEAKE, Ship

U.S. frigate, famous for her role in the Chesapeake affair (June 22, 1807) and for her battle with the H.M.S. Shannon (June 1, 1813). The Chesapeake left Norfolk, Va., for the Mediterranean under the command of James Barron in June, 1807. Just outside U.S. territorial waters the H.M.S. Leopard stopped her and demanded the right to search her for British deserters. Barron refused to allow this, and shortly afterward the Leopard opened fire. Unprepared for action, Barron was forced to submit and allow the impressment of four of his crew (two of whom were American-born). The incident caused intense indignation, and war seemed imminent. In the War of 1812, the refitted Chesapeake, commanded by James Lawrence, engaged (June 1, 1813) the H.M.S. Shannon outside Boston harbor. Lawrence was mortally wounded, and his last command was reportedly the famous "Don't give up the ship!" The Chesapeake was, however, captured.

See studies by K. Poolman (1961), P. Padfield (1968), and H. F. Pullen (1970).

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books on: Chesapeake Ship  - 753 results

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Tobacco Coast: A Maritime History of Chesapeake Bay in the Colonial Era
Book by Arthur Pierce Middleton, George Carrington Mason; Mariners Museum, 1953
Subjects: Chesapeake Bay (Md. And Va.), Tobacco Industry--Maryland, Tobacco Industry--Virginia
...vessels in the trade between the Chesapeake and the West Indies will be...the Two Bays of Delaware and Chesapeake, this is, between Apoquinomy...10, 1736, to encourage Chesapeake merchants to ship provisions to the newly-founded...
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The Seventeenth-Century Sheriff: A Comparative Study of the Sheriff in England and the Chesapeake Colonies, 1607-1689
Book by Cyrus Harreld Karraker; The University of North Carolina Press, 1930
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714, Local government--Maryland, Local government--Virginia, Maryland--Politics and government--Colonial period, Sheriffs--Great Britain, Sheriffs--Maryland, Sheriffs--Virginia, Virginia--Politics and government--Colonial period
...own revenues, and in particular the regular collection of ship-money between 1634 and 1640, added greatly to the sheriffs...the extra-parliamentary revenues in each county. In the Chesapeake colonies the power of the sheriff in local government, as...
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Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800
Book by Norman K. Risjord; Columbia University Press, 1978
Subjects: Political Parties--Maryland--History, Political Parties--North Carolina--History, Political Parties--Virginia--History
...Carolina. At Edenton the traveler took ship across Albemarle Sound, and on the south...to Charleston, South Carolina, was by ship. Those determined to avoid the sea veered...each with a draft of about nine feet. Any ship that drew more than that had to unload...
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Disposal Options for Ships
Book by Ronald W. Hess, Denis Rushworth, Michael V. Hynes, John E. Peters; Rand, 2001
Subjects: Artificial Reefs--United States, Ships--Scrapping--United States, Ships--Storage--United States, Surplus Government Property--United States
...recycling program or the specific ships that each such contractor might...an average towing cost per ship for all 358 ships in the inactive inventory...distance. The resulting per-ship cost of towing was then included...Delaware River area, the northern Chesapeake Bay, and the vicinity of Brownsville...
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The Shipbuilders: From Clipper Ships to Submarines to Hovercraft
Book by D. S. Halacy Jr.; J. B. Lippincott, 1966
Subjects: Ships
...craft plying the waters of Chesapeake Bay when hostilities ended...call the first of the clipper ships. She was the Ann McKim , built...mean anyhow? Perhaps simply a ship that clipped through the waves...all acknowledge to be clipper ships. For some time there had been ship designers who wanted to break...
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Pets, Status, and Slavery in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Journal article by Sarah Hand Meacham; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 77, 2011
Subjects: Boucher, Jonathan--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Carter, Landon--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Chesapeake, Virginia--History, Chesapeake, Virginia--Social aspects, Pet owners--History, Slavery, Theft--Cases
...Late-Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake. by Sarah Hand Meacham Stolen...him, contracted on board the ship. He answers to the name of...that elite colonists in the Chesapeake mimicked English gentry and...relationship, "tho few Masters of Ships will take any Care of such...
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Blue Crabs and Controversy on the Chesapeake Bay: a Cultural Model for Understanding Watermen's Reasoning about Blue Crab Management
Journal article by Michael Paolisso; Human Organization, Vol. 61, 2002
Subjects: Anthropology, Chesapeake Bay, Commercial fishing, Crustaceans, Culture, Fisheries
...Lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. I began this work in...toxic chemicals by a barge or ship, and, most often mentioned...we are the guardians of the Chesapeake Bay, but because things have...regulations. In the case of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab fishery, a...
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"They Will Be Adjudged by Their Drink, What Kinde of Housewives They Are": Gender, Technology, and Household Cidering in England and the Chesapeake, 1690 to 1760
Journal article by Sarah Hand Meacham; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 111, 2003
Subjects: Alcohol, Fermentation, Gender, Households, Technology
...18 Because the early Chesapeake had few towns, market...transportation. "Your convict ship arrived safe with the...immigrants to the Chesapeake knew that it was increasingly...alcohol.35 Although Chesapeake immigrants had spent...before eventually taking ship to America." In other...
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Puritans and Religious Strife in the Early Chesapeake
Journal article by Kevin Butterfield; The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 109, 2001
Subjects: Berkeley, George (1685-1753), History, Politics, Puritanism, Religious organizations, Religious persecution, Virginia
...twice and were even forced to acquire a new ship midway through their eleven-week voyage...least"-he remarked that a passenger on a ship from Virginia had heard an Indian captive...seen a fight in the river between a London ship which was for the parliament and a Bristol...
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Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812
Journal article by James C. Bradford; The Historian, Vol. 70, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Don't Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812 (Book)--Book reviews
Dont Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. by James C. Bradford Dont Give Up the Ship! Myths of the War of 1812. By Donald R...S. Navy gunboats to block invasions of Chesapeake Bay and Louisiana, and the burning of Washington...
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USS Wyoming the Chesapeake Raider
Magazine article by Owen Gault; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, February 2010
...her wounded to the hospital ship Relief (AH-I), the former...its most-important school ships. Putting into Norfolk on...into the lower reaches of Chesapeake Bay for gunnery drills that...to and from that grand old ship," recalls Gloria Zenner...that locals dubbed her "The Chesapeake Raider because she would leave...
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"Burn the Blighters Out!" the Chesapeake Bay Raids by Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn in the War of 1812 Part One
Magazine article by Blaine Taylor; Sea Classics, Vol. 42, November 2009
...command of four third-rate ships - HMS Poictiers, Victorious...capricious." He arrived on the Chesapeake on 3 March 1813 at Lynnhaven...herself out in a boat to the ship to plead for her fathers life...leaned over the rail of the ship and threw to her his personal...
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Heritage Award Liberty Ships
Magazine article by Ernest F. Imhoff; Sea Classics, Vol. 36, December 2003
...used for the Liberty ships launched in the United...totally operational ship. If these Libertys...Brown. Captain Hope, a Chesapeake Bay pilot, said nothing...otherwise supports the ship. In his book, Capt...value of preserving ships like the Brown and the...urges groups to save ships, offers a focus for information on ship status and preservation...
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School Ships of the Maritime Academies
Magazine article by Robert T. McLaren; Sea Classics, Vol. 38, November 2005
...retired from service. The ship was assigned to the...first of the training ships to be named Keystone...State project. The ship then cruised the Delaware and Chesapeake Bays for two weeks...variety of merchant ships, sailing in Long Island Sound and the Chesapeake Bay. At the end of...
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Strange Mystery of the Vanished Sister Ships
Magazine article by David H. Grover; Sea Classics, Vol. 39, November 2006
...profile, the seven ships appeared to be quite...pictures of the same ship taken at different times...profile at sea, the seven ships could be considered...She then sailed for Chesapeake Bay with 309 men aboard...was the rest of the ship. The foredeck and bridge...of the three missing ships, and the opportunity...destination had been Chesapeake Bay and she was known...
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Bay Buccaneers; Chesapeake in Summer Sweet Place for Pirates
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 20, 2006
Subjects: Rediker, Marcus
...and Raiders on the Chesapeake Bay, 1610-1907...belonged to one of his ships, Queen Annes Revenge...foot-long, slave-ship-turned-pirate...the victors Colonial ship and later transferred...ports - including the Chesapeake, New York, Charleston...on merchant and other ships. "The accident rate...
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Judge Moves Sniper Suspect Trial to Chesapeake; Malvo's Defense Team 'Very Pleased'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 3, 2003
Subjects: Malvo, John Lee, Muhammad, John Allen
...The trial likely will bring Chesapeake a crush of national and international...show that about 25 percent of Chesapeake residents - about half the...hold bachelors degrees. Chesapeake has a higher concentration...themselves and witnesses, and ship physical evidence between...
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Newspaper Publisher Merrill Missing; Sailboat Adrift in Chesapeake
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 12, 2006
Subjects: United States. Coast Guard
...Missing; Sailboat Adrift in Chesapeake. Byline: Audrey Hudson...an aerial search over the Chesapeake Bay for missing newspaper...The sails were down when the ship was escorted to land, but...to patrol the annual Great Chesapeake Bay Swim and continued the...
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Chumming Begins in Chesapeake Bay
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 5, 2008
Subjects: Fishes
Chumming Begins in Chesapeake Bay. Byline: Gene Mueller...Maryland parts of the Chesapeake Bay. From Lexington Park...Henderson said. The Target Ship turned up stripers, and...have arrived in the lower Chesapeake Bay. Plus, theres also...
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Striper Results Mixed on Chesapeake
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 9, 2006
Subjects: Fishing, Fishing (Recreation)
Striper Results Mixed on Chesapeake. Byline: Gene Mueller...big ocean rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay and lower Potomac River...every day from up and down the ship channel and in the lower Potomac...that now are entering the Chesapeake from the Atlantic. Meanwhile...
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encyclopedia articles on: Chesapeake Ship  - 9 results

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Chesapeake , Ship
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHESAPEAKE , ship U.S. frigate, famous for her role in the Chesapeake affair (June 22, 1807) and for her battle with the H.M.S. Shannon (June 1, 1813). The Chesapeake left Norfolk, Va., for the Mediterranean under...
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Hull, Isaac
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In 1810 he was given command of the Constitution. Early in the War of 1812 he slipped his ship out of Chesapeake Bay and, evading seven enemy ships, succeeded in making his way through the British blockade to Boston Harbor. On Aug. 19...
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War of 1812
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...French subjected American ships to considerable arbitrary...impressment being the Chesapeake affair of 1807. Despite...supremacy on the sea; the Chesapeake, under Capt. James...Dont give up the ship!"), accepted a challenge...Most of the American ships were either captured...British expedition to Chesapeake Bay won an easy victory...
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Nicholson, James
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Dec., 1776). In attempting to elude the British blockade of Chesapeake Bay, the Virginia ran aground and was captured (1778), although Nicholson escaped. His next ship, the Trumbull, held the Watt to a draw in 1780, but in 1781 it...
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Virginia , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...are Norfolk ; Newport News ; Chesapeake ; Hampton; Portsmouth ; and...trade. The company sent three ships and 144 men under captains...and the tiny force entered Chesapeake Bay in Apr., 1607. On a...arrived in 1619 on a Dutch ship), most of whom were indentured...trade to use only English ships and English ports, which...
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