On This Day 16 September

[Coog]

On 16 September 1812 the American privateer schooner Rossie, Captain Joshua Barney, captured the Post Office Packet Service packet ship Princess Amelia. At the time Rossie was armed with ten 12-pounder carronades 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 strike after she had lost three men killed, including her captain, Isaac Moorsom, and her sailing master, John Nankevell, and 11 men wounded. (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, First Lieutenant Sylvanus Long, severely. Barney sent Princess Amelia into Savannah, Georgia, where the US Navy bought her and named her USS Troup.

[David Manley]

Moving on a bit its also the anniversary of the Japanese surrender of Hong Kong. My dad was nearby at the time :)