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Posted by Bradley E Foster on September 20, 19101 at 22:25:01:
In Reply to: Re: U S Frigate Es posted by Bradley E. Foster on August 19, 19101 at 22:15:18:
Actually, I may be in error. I have also read the same thing about the frigate Chesapeake, and I remembered it from a fairly old source. I think the title was "Capt. Broke and the Shannon, written in the early '60s or so. So it was one or the other, probably Chesapeake, because the citation was older and more authoritative. The "Es" citation was from a press release or letter to a magazine. I doubt both of them were built into sawmills, but I suppose it is possible.
: : She was ultimately broken up and her timbers incorporated into a sawmill called the "Es Mill". A few years ago, the mill was demolished and it was rediscovered that the structure was composed primarily of old ship timbers, probably a greater quantity than that still extant in "Victory" or "Constitution". It was intended that they be preserved. I read about this last year, but forgot the source.
: : : What became of the Es after its capture by the British, towed around the Horn to the Caribbean and used as a prison ? ( 1814 )
: : After her capture in November 1814, she was taken into the RN as MHS Es, and became a convict ship in 1823. In 1837 she was sold out of the service.