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|Ship name=''Rossie''
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|Ship owner=*First letter of marque:[[John McKim Jr.]], Thos. Tenant, Robt. Patterson, Andrew Clopper, Levi Hollingsworth, Jas. Partridge,, Christopher Deshon, Jas. Briscoe, August & Frederick Schwaetse & Jeremiah Sullivan<ref name=MOM/>
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''Rossie'' was a [[schooner]] launched at Baltimore in 1807.<ref name=MOM/> At the outbreak of the [[War of 1812]] she became a [[privateer]], operating under a [[letter of marque]]. She made two voyages, the first as a privateer, and the less successful second as a letter of marque. The British captured her in January 1813.
==Construction==
[[Thomas Kemp (shipbuilder)|Thomas Kemp]] of [[Fell's Point, Baltimore]], built and launched her. He would go to build several other schooners that would become among the most successful [[privateer]] of the war, such as [[Chasseur (1812 clipper)|''Chasseur'']].
==First letter of marque==
''Rossie'' was commissioned on 11 July 1812, right at the outbreak of the war. Her owners hired [[Joshua Barney]] as her captain and Silvanus Long as her [[first lieutenant]].<ref name=MOM>[http://www.1812privateers.org/United%20States/menofmarque01.htm Men of Marque]</ref> She had letter of marque #1. On her first cruise under Barney she captured some 18 vessels in six weeks off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Barney then put in at [[Newport, Rhode Island]], on 30 August. He replenished his supplies and then cruised southward. On his cruise, Barney thrice out-sailed British [[sailing frigate|frigates]]. He engaged in two actions, the first with the ''Jenny'' (or ''Jeanie''), of 12 guns. He captured her and did not report any casualties. ''Lloyd's List'' reported that ''Rossie{{'}}''s prize, ''Jane'', of 12 guns, carrying 20,000 bushels of salt, had arrived in Newport on 5 September.<ref name=LL4714/> ''Rossie'' also captured the brig ''Nymphe'', Patch, master, which had been sailing from the West Indies, and carried her into Boston.<ref name=LL4715>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=391 ''Lloyd's List'', №4715.]</ref>
{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Name
! Type
! Fate
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| ''Brothers''
| Brig
| [[Cartel (ship)|Cartel]]
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| ''Kitty''
| Ship
| Recaptured<ref name=LL4703/>
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| ''Devonshire''
| Brig
| Burnt
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| ''Merrimack''
| Ship
| Sent in (US)<ref name=LL4731/>
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| ''Euphrates''
| Ship
| New Bedford (US){{efn|The designation "US" means the vessel was either an American vessel recaptured from the British, or one operating in violation of the [[Non-importation Act]].}}
|-
| ''Nymph''
| Brig
| Boston<ref name=LL4715/>
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| ''Fame''
| Brig
| Burnt
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| {{ship||Princess Amelia|1799 packet|2}}
| Brig
| Savannah
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| ''Halifax''
| Schooner
| Burnt
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| ''Princess Royal''
| Ship
| Burnt
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| ''Henry''
| Brig
| Sunk
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| ''Race Horse''
| Schooner
| Sunk
|-
| ''Hetty''
| Ship
| Sent in
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| ''Rebecca''
| Brig
| New London (US)
|-
| ''Jane''
| Ship
| Newport<ref name=LL4714/>
|-
| ''Squid''
| Schooner
| Burnt
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| ''Jenny''
| Ship
| Salem
|-
| ''Two Brothers''
| Schooner
| Cartel
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| ''Jubilee''{{efn|''Rossie'' was in company with another privateer at the capture of ''Jubilee''.}}|
| Schooner
| Sent in
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| ''William''
| Brig
| New York
|-
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''Rossie'' captured ''Kitty'', Thompson, master, on 31 July as she was sailing from Greenock to New Brunswick. On 1 August ''Rossie'' captured the brig ''Two Brothers'', and burnt four "Bankers", loaded with fish. Three days later, {{HMS|Pomone|1809|6}} recaptured ''Kitty'' and sent her into Newfoundland.<ref name=LL4703>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=367 ''Lloyd's List'', №4703.]</ref>
It was on the second leg of the cruise that ''Rossie''{{'}}s most famous action took place. On 16 September 1812 she captured the [[Post Office Packet Service]] [[packet ship]] ''Princess Amelia''. At the time ''Rossie'' was armed with ten 12-pounder guns and one long 9-pounder on a pivot, and had a crew of 95; ''Princess Amelia'' was armed with four 6-pounders and two 9-pounders, and had a crew of 27 or 28. ''Princess Amelia'' had to [[striking the colours|strike]] after she had lost three men killed, including her captain, Isaac Moorsom, and her sailing master, John Nankevell, and 11 men wounded.{{sfnp|Norway|1895|pp=225-6}}{{efn|''Lloyd's List'' gave the number of dead as two, Moorsom and a boy, and the number of wounded as ten, including the mate.<ref name=LL4714>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=389 ''Lloyd's List'', №4714.]</ref>}} (Some of the wounded may have died later as a report on her arrival in Savannah gives her casualties as six dead and six or seven wounded.) American casualties were seven men wounded, one of them, Sylvanus Long, severely.{{sfnp|Brannen|1823|pp=65-6}} Barney sent ''Princess Amelia'' into Savannah, Georgia, where the US Navy bought her and named her USS ''Troup''.
Barney returned to Baltimore on 11 October. ''Merrimack'', Cook, master, which had been sailing from Liverpool when ''Rossie'' captured her, arrived 12 days later.<ref name=LL4731>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735025?urlappend=%3Bseq=423 ''Lloyd's List'', №4731.]</ref>
Barney estimated that on this voyage he had captured 3698 tons of British shipping, worth US$1.5 million. He also had captured 217 prisoners.{{sfnp|Brannen|1823|pp=65-6}} Of course, it helped that many of the vessels that he captured did not know that the war had begun.
==Second letter of marque==
''Rossie'' was commissioned on 3 December 1812 with J. D. Daniels as captain and James Stubbs as first lieutenant.<ref name=MOM/> The Royal Navy's Rochfort squadron captured her on 6 January 1813 in the [[Basque Roads]]. She was carrying coffee from Baltimore to Bordeaux, and the announcement of her capture states that she had only one gun.<ref name=LG16715>{{London Gazette|issue=16715|page=628|date=27 March 1813}}</ref> The actual captor appears to have been {{HMS|Dryad|1795|6}}. ''Rossie'' arrived in [[Plymouth]] on 17 January 1813.{{efn|''Lloyd's List'' gives her name as ''Ross'' and her captor as ''Dryade''.<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2735026?urlappend=%3Bseq=19 ''Lloyd's List'' №4738.]</ref>}} Eight ships of the Royal Navy were in sight at the capture, as was the British privateer ''Chance''.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=16758|date=27 July 1813|page=1495}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Brannen |editor1-first=John |year=1823 |title=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: with some additional letters and documents elucidating the history of that period |publisher=Way & Gideon}}
* {{cite book |last1=Norway |first1=Arthur H. |year=1895|title=History of the Post-Office Packet Service between the Years 1793-1815 |location=London |publisher=Macmillan & Co.}}
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