On the Ocean 83 



LIST OF VESSELS TAKEN FROM BRITISR 



I. CAPTURED BY THE AMERICAN PRIVATEERS. 

 Name. Tons. Guns. 



Ballahou, 86 4 



Landrail^ 76 4 



2. CAPTURED, ETC., BY AMERICAN NAVY ON OCEAN. 



Name. Tons. Guns. 



Efervicr, 477 18 captured by sloop Peacock. 



Avon, 477 20 sunk " " Wasp. 



Reindeer, 477 19 " " " M 



Pictou, 300 14 captured by frigate. 



3. SUNK IN ATTACKING FORT. 

 Hermes* 500 22 



2.393 to' 



Taking into account the losses on the lakes, there 

 was not very much difference in the amount of 

 damage done to each combatant by the other; but 

 both as regards the material results and the moral 

 effects, the balance inclined largely to the Americans. 

 The chief damage done to our navy was by the 

 British land-forces, and consisted mainly in forcing 

 us to burn an unfinished frigate and sloop. On the 

 ocean our three sloops were captured, in each case 

 by an overwhelming force, against which no resist 

 ance could be made, and the same was true of the 

 captured British schooner. The Essex certainly 

 gained as much honor as her opponents. There 

 were but three single ship actions, in all of which 

 the Americans were so superior in force as to give 

 them a very great advantage; nevertheless, in two 



