Title:
Plundering privateer barge Yankee turned British blockade into profit
Author:
Carol W. Kimball
Subjects:
War of 1812
privateers
privateers
Object ID:
Kim06-084a
Object Name:
Scrapbook
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Publisher:
The Day
Publication Place:
New London, CT
Pubication Date:
04/03/1997
Collection:
Carol W. Kimball
Summary:
New London sea captains, angry at the hardships imposed by the British blockade of their port in 1814, launched a barge disguised as a British warship. They fooled the Brits and made a lot of money doing it.
People:
Rogers, Max A. (1814)
Chappelle, Howard I.
Burrows, Lemuel
Washington, Peter
Chappelle, Howard I.
Burrows, Lemuel
Washington, Peter