HMS Tenedos (1812)

Tenedos, part of a fleet under the command of Sir Philip Broke, was assigned to patrol of the coast near Boston Harbor in April 1812.

[1] In August of the same year, the Tenedos lost seven men in an engagement with irregular forces off Mount Desert Island, Maine.

[2] While harbored at Halifax, Nova Scotia Tenedos during a severe winter storm on 12 November, broke free of her moorings and almost collided with two ships nearby.

[3] The brig Sarah, R.Pendergrast, master, which had been sailing from New York to Amsterdam when HMS Tenedos captured her on 19 February 1813.

[5][6] On 17 February 1815 the War of 1812 ended when the US Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent and Tenedos returned one month later from patrolling the Eastern seaboard to Halifax in Nova Scotia for the final time.