Brig Niagara and HMS Bounty off the Northcoast of the United Sta
by Robert Gardner
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Brig Niagara and HMS Bounty off the Northcoast of the United Sta
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Robert Gardner
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The Flagship Niagara is an accurate replica of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship from the War of 1812. The British were threatening the north of the United States across Lake Erie from Canada. When The British fleet was sailing across Lake Erie near the Island of Put In Bay, they were met by the United States Fleet under the command of Oliver Hazard Perry. Perry engaged in a line exchanging broadside with the British fleet. Soon Perrys Ship was unable to continue combat. Perry taking a longboat transferred to the Niagra and took command, cutting the line of the British boats he fired broadside after broadside from both sides of the ship into the British. soon the British ships surrendered, and the Battle of Lake Erie was over.------ HMS Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty. Built for the movie Munity on the Bounty in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1960, It was nearly twice the size of the original build in 1787. She sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy on 29 October 2012.
The ship was often referred to as HMS Bounty, but was not entitled to the use of the prefix "HMS" as she was not commissioned into the Royal Navy. Here "HMS" is treated as part of the popular name, and not as a ship prefix. This photograph was taken in 2010 as the two ships were under full sail in Lake Erie making for Cleveland Harbor.
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September 14th, 2022
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