HMS Bold (1812)
HMS Bold (1812) was a 14-gun Bold class gun-brig that Tyson & Blake built at Bursledon. She was armed with 12 cannon, 10 18-pounder carronades and two 6-pounder guns in the bow. Bold was commissioned in July 1812 under Cmdr. John Skekel who sailed her for North America on 17 April 1813.
On 26 May 1813, while in the company of the Halifax privateer Sir John Sherbrooke, the two vessels recaptured the Duck, which the American privateer General Plummer had taken shortly before.[1] On the morning of 27 September 1813, between the hours of three and four o'clock, a strong gale drove her on shore near the north end of Prince Edward's Island. Her entire crew of 67 officers and men were saved, but with great difficulty. Lieut. Governor C. D. Smith sent the Agnes transport, which had recently arrived at Charlottetown, to assist Bold and recover stores. Agnes took Bold's crew to Halifax.
- ↑ Parkinson & Fayle (2006), p. 246.
- Parkinson, C. Northcote, & Charles Ernest Fayle, eds. (2006). The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade During the French Wars .... (London: Taylor & Francis)
- Snider, C.H.J. (1928) Under the Red Jack; Privateers of the Maritime Provinces of Canada in the War of 1812. (London: Martin Hopkinson & Co.).
- Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1861762461.
