Racing Sundown

by Robert Gardner

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Racing Sundown

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Robert Gardner

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Off Cleveland Harbor, Lake Erie. The Flagship Niagara is an accurate replica of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship from the War of 1812. In the war of 1812, the British were threatening the north of the United States across Lake Erie from Canada. The British fleet sailing crossed Lake Erie near the Island of Put In Bay, there 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 effectively 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 two British ships surrendered, and the battle was over.--Bounty was an enlarged reconstruction of the original 1787 Royal Navy sailing ship HMS Bounty. Built 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 built for the Movie Munity on the Bounty and 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

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September 14th, 2022

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