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JOURNAL OF MIDSHIPMAN FREDERICK BAURY (27
OCTOBER 1812 ‑16 FEBRUARY 1813), IN
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Oct 1812 1500 Sailed ‑‑ 1700
passed Boston Light ‑‑ fresh breezes ‑‑ HORNET in company. 28
Oct 1812 29
Oct 1812 "Hard gales" veering
W; rough seas ‑‑ 10 kts. 30
Oct 1812 Light W breezes. 31
Oct 1812 Exercised at general quarters. 1 Nov 1812
Heavy SW swell ‑‑ exercised at general quarters ‑‑
10 kts (2 hours). 3 Nov 1812
Exercised at general quarters. 4 Nov 1812
1100 "The Sharp Shooters Exercising at a Mark" ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 5 Nov 1812
Moderate ‑‑ 10 kts (4 hours) ‑‑ 1600 in chase ‑‑
cleared for action ‑‑ American ship
STAR spoke. 6 Nov 1812
John Toothaken [sic] died ‑‑ pleasant ‑‑ 1330
Captain Lawrence of HORNET came
aboard ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 7 Nov 1812
Strong gales ‑‑ 10 kts (3 hours) ‑‑ exercised at
general quarters. 8 Nov 1812
More moderate; fresh breezes ‑‑ 1200 in chase ‑‑
1330 HORNET boarded American brig 9 Nov 1812
Heavy gales. 10
Nov 1812 Moderate. 11
Nov 1812 Pleasant. 12
Nov 1812 Pleasant ‑‑
exercised at general quarters. 13
Nov 1812 Moderate, then squally ‑‑
exercised great guns by divisions. 14
Nov 1812 Fresh breezes ‑‑
stowing "starb. bower" on the "Gunwalls." 15
Nov 1812 Fresh breezes ‑‑
1100 mustered crew; read Articles of
War. 16
Nov 1812 Light breezes ‑‑
about 1100 Captain Lawrence on board ‑‑ 1330 exercised great guns by divisions ‑‑
1800 17
Nov 1812 Fresh breezes ‑‑
exercised at general quarters. 18
Nov 1812 1000 "Exercised the
Marines & Riflemen at a Mark" ‑‑ pleasant. 19
Nov 1812 Light breezes ‑‑
1300 Captain Lawrence aboard ‑‑ 1730 20
Nov 1812 Moderate ‑‑ 10 kts
(6 hours). 21
Nov 1812 "Moderate Trades." 22
Nov 1812 (Sunday) Rain showers ‑‑ 1200 Mustered
crew and "read prayers." 23
Nov 1812 Heavy squalls ‑‑
filled empty casks with rain water ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 24
Nov 1812 Squally ‑‑ 16‑1800
"exercised the Boarders with Small Arms." 25
Nov 1812 "rainy disagreeable
Weather" ‑‑ exercised the great guns by divisions. 26
Nov 1812 Moderate ‑‑ 0930
Captain Lawrence, Lieutenant Ballard, and Lieutenant Steward [sic] came
aboard ‑‑ fired 1 gun for court martial of Marine James Penshaw
"for threatening the Life of Midn Dulany." 27
Nov 1812 Moderate. 28
Nov 1812 Moderate. 29
Nov 1812 Gentle breezes ‑‑
showers ‑‑ read prayers ‑‑ exercised at general
quarters. 30
Nov 1812 Fresh breezes ‑‑
1630 "Beat to Quarters Exercised the Great Guns & manovered [sic]
with the Hornet." 1 Dec 1812
Moderate. 2 Dec 1812
0700 Sighted land ‑‑ 1200 anchored off 3 Dec 1812
"...painting the Quarterdeck..." ‑‑ no water due
to high surf. 4 Dec 1812
8 casks of water received ‑‑ cloudy ‑‑ 1230
sailed ‑‑ standing off and on island. 5 Dec 1812
Fresh breezes ‑‑ 1430 received 12 pigs from HORNET ‑‑
exercised at general quarters. 6 Dec 1812
Pleasant ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 7 Dec 1812
0830 Found the fore topgallant yard sprung; replaced it ‑‑
moderate breezes ‑‑ exercised the great guns by divisions. 8 Dec 1812
Fresh breezes ‑‑ 1800 town of "Pernibuco" WNW 8
leagues. 9 Dec 1812
Light airs ‑‑ 1145 " 10
Dec 1812 Moderate ‑‑ scraped
gun carriages -‑ exercised at general quarters. 11
Dec 1812 Moderate. 12
Dec 1812 0745 Saw land ‑‑ 0800
"chase" sighted ‑‑ 0900 Bainbridge aboard HORNET ‑‑ 1200 Bainbridge back ‑‑ moderate. 13
Dec 1812 0500 Saw land from WNW to
WbN1/2W ‑‑ 0700 sent to HORNET for water ‑‑
gentle breezes ‑‑ 1400 "read Prayers to the Crew" -- 1930 finished
watering from HORNET ‑‑ HORNET sent to 14
Dec 1812 Brisk gales ‑‑
standing off and on ‑‑ 0500 saw 3 sail, largest HORNET. 15
Dec 1812 Light breezes; rain. 16
Dec 1812 Still laying off and on ‑‑
fresh breezes. 17
Dec 1812 "...white washing &
painting the Gun Deck..." ‑‑ pleasant ‑‑ exercised
at general
quarters. 18
Dec 1812 Rain ‑‑ still
laying off and on ‑‑ 1500 Captain Lawrence aboard ‑‑
sent boats to
get provisions, water, fruit from HORNET ‑‑ 1900 exercised at general quarters ‑‑
resumed laying off and on with HORNET. 19
Dec 1812 Watering from HORNET; also got
sugar cane ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 20
Dec 1812 Light airs ‑‑ 1200
read Articles of War to the crew, then prayers. 21
Dec 1812 Light airs. 22
Dec 1812 Moderate. 23
Dec 1812 Light airs. 24
Dec 1812 Flying clouds. 25
Dec 1812 Light airs ‑‑ 1030
Captain 26
Dec 1812 Rainy. 27
Dec 1812 (Sunday) Fresh gales. 28
Dec 1812 Moderate, squally. 29 Dec 1812 "At 9 AM Discovd [sic] two Strange Sail on our weather Bow" [wind WNW, course E] ‑‑ "At 10 AM Disco [sic] the Sails to be Ships One Standing In for the Land & the Other Standing off ‑ & Incling [sic] towards us" [course NW] ‑‑ "At 11 Tacked to the S & E hauled up the Main Sail & Took In the Royals Discovd [sic] the Sail Standing for us to be a man of war. At 1/2 past 11 AM Made the Private Signal of the Day which was not answered Set the Main Sail & Royal to Draw the Strange Sail from the Nuteral [sic] Coast ‑‑ Ends with moderate breezes & hazey [sic] weather" ‑‑ "Commences with Clear Weather & Moderate breezes from the ENE hoisted our Ensign & Penant [sic] At 12.15 PM hoisted English Colors having a Signal flying at her Main red-over‑yellow‑ over‑ red] At 1.26 being Sufficiently from the Land & finding the Ship to be an English Frigate Took in the Main Sail & Royal Tacked Ship & Stood for the Enemy At 1.50 PM the Enemy bore down with An Intention to rake us which we avoided by wearing At 2 PM The enemy being within half a Mile of us & to Windward & having hauled Down her Colors to Dip his Gaff ‑ & Not hoisting them again Except an Union Jack At the Mizen [sic] Masthead / we having Hoisted an American Jack Foreward [sic] $ at the Main our Ensign, At the Miz T G Masthead & at the Gaff ‑ Induced [ ? ] to Give orders to the Offs of the 3 divisions to fire one Gun
Gun
Ahead of the enemy to Make him Sho [sic] Colours [sic] on which he hoisted an
English [sic] At the Mizen Peck [sic] & Another At his Weather Main
rigging besides his Penant & the Amediately [sic] Returned our fire which brought on a General
Action with round & Grape. The Grape The enemy Keeping at a Much Greater Distance
that [sic] we wished but could not bring him
to closer Action without Exposing Our Selves to Several rakes Considerable manouvers [sic] were Made by bothe [sic] Ships to rake & avoid being
raked The following Minutes were Taken during the
Action "At 2.10 PM Com
the Action Within grape & Canister Distance enemy to Windward "At 2.30 Our
wheel were Shott Entirely Away "At 2.40
Determined to Close With the Enemy notwithstanding his raking Set the Fore Sail & Luffed up Close to
him "At 2.50 The
Enemies [sic] Jib Boom Got foul of our Mizen rigging "At 3 The Head
of the enemies Bowsprit & Jib Boom was Shott [sic] Away by us "At 3.5 Shott
Away the Enemies Fore Mast "At 3.15 Shott
Away his Main Top Mast Just Above the Cap "At 3.40 Shott
Away his Gaff & Spanker Boom "At 4.05 Having
silenced the fire of the Enemy Completely & his colors In the Main rigging
being down Supposed he had Struck Hauled
on
Board
the Courses & Shott a head [sic] to Repair our Rigging which was Badly Cut the enemy a compleat Wreck ‑
Soon After Discovd [sic] the Enemy Flag Still
Flying hove too to repair some of our Damages
At 4.20 PM
The Enemies Main Mast went by the Board ‑ At 4.50 Wore Ship & Stood for the
enemy At 5.25 Got Verry [sic] close to
the enemy In a Raking position athwart his Bows & was At
the Verry Instant of raking him when She Most
prudently hauled down his Colours [sic] had the Enemy suffered
the Broadside to have raked him previous to his Striking his additional Loss
must have been Verry Grate [sic] Laying Like a Log upon the Water perfectly unmanageable We could have continued raking him without being
Exposed to more than two of his Guns (If even them) After the Enemy had Struck Wore Ship &
reefed our Top Sails Hoisted out one of the Two remain [sic] Boats we had
left out of Eight & Sent Lt Parker Our 1st Lieut to take possession of him
which was about 6 PM The Action Continued from the
Commencing to the Ending of the Fire One Hour & 55
Minutes Our Sails & rigging much [sic]
& Some of our Spars Injured had 9 Killed &
15 Wounded – At 7 PM The Boat returned with Lt Chads the 1st Lt of the Enemies
Frigate From Which we Learnt was the Java (rated a 38 ‑ but mounting
49 Guns) ‑ & Lieut General Hislop Appointed to Command In the East Indies
Major Walker & Capn Wood belonging to his Staff. Capt
Lambert of the Java Was too dangerously wounded to be Amediately [sic]
removed The Cutter returned on Board for the Prisoners &
brought Capt Martin Mastr & Comr of the British Navy Who was Passenger on
Board As Also Several Officers Destined for Ships In the
East Indies The Number He Had on Board At the time of the Action His Officers have
not the Candor to Say from the Different
papers we have & Also her Q Bill & Watch Bill He Must have had 400 Souls He had one Man More at Each Gun than what we had The enemy had 60 Killed & 101
Wounded Certainly But By a Letter Written
In this Ship (by one of the Off of the Java) &
Accidentally found It is Evident her wounded was [sic] many more than above
Stated & Who must have Dyed [sic] of the Wounds before removed
the Letter says 60 Killed 170 Wounded ‑ The Java was an Important Ship fitted out in the Compleatest Manner to Carry out Lt. Gen Hislop & Despatches She Had Copper &c for the Building of 2
74 at Bom Bay [sic] & a Great Ma[n]y Other
Valuables But Every Thing was Blown up With her Except the Officer
Baggage When we set her on fire Jany 1st 1813 Wearing & Tacking Throughout the
Night Boats Emp bringing on Board the Prisoners All Hands Empd repairing Damages In
the Rigging &
Spars" 30
Dec 1812 A new main topsail yard being
readied ‑‑ replaced mainsail. 31
Dec 1812 Replaced the main topsail and
jib ‑‑ JAVA fired about 1300 ‑‑ 1500 blew up ‑‑ 1800
new main topsail yard up. 1 Jan 1813
Moderate ‑‑ 0830 general quarters ‑‑ 1500
Captain 2 Jan 1813
Watering ‑‑ 1400 began offloading prisoners. 3 Jan 1813
More enlisted prisoners offloaded ‑‑ "Empd Getting out
fishes for the Mast" ‑‑ pleasant ‑‑ 1200 Seaman Stephen Welsh [?]
died of
wounds ‑‑ "fishing our Spars." 4 Jan 1813
"Ten Carpen Came on Board from 5 Jan 1813
Still watering ‑‑ "remarkable Warm" ‑‑
1300 sailed ‑‑ 1600 Captain Lawrence aboard ‑‑ about 2100 6 Jan 1812
1100 Lieutenant Shubrick transferred to HORNET ‑‑ Lieutenant
Ballard joined
from HORNET as 2nd Lieutenant ‑‑ Lieutenant Hoffman
"reduced to 3d"
‑‑ 1630 parted from HORNET ‑‑ Ordinary Seaman
Reuben Sanderline died of wounds. 7 Jan 1813
Pleasant ‑‑ HORNET's prize schooner in tow. 8 Jan 1813
Pleasant. 9 Jan 1813
Pleasant, then rainy. 10
Jan 1813 Read prayers. 11
Jan 1813 1200 "All hands Empd In
getting down the Main Top Mast & Getting up a new one ‑
the Old one having Suffered by a Shott [sic] In the Late Action." 12
Jan 1813 Fresh breezes. 13
Jan 1813 Squally ‑‑ 2310 saw
land. 14
Jan 1813 Squally ‑‑ saw
land. 15
Jan 1813 Prize in tow again ‑‑
saw land. 16
Jan 1813 Clear. 17
Jan 1813 (Sunday) Light breezes ‑‑ prize in tow
again ‑‑ read prayers. 18
Jan 1813 Fresh breezes. 19
Jan 1813 Pleasant ‑‑ prize
in tow ‑‑ "wounded doing well." 20
Jan 1813 Squally. 21 Jan 1813
Squally ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 22
Jan 1813 Moderate ‑‑
exercised at general quarters twice. 23
Jan 1813 Squally. 24
Jan 1813 Squally ‑‑ 10 kts
(2 hours) ‑‑ "dirty weather" ‑‑ 1700 Ordinary
Seaman John
Chiver [sic] died of wounds. 25
Jan 1813 Squally ‑‑ 0700
burial at sea. 26
Jan 1813 Fresh gales ‑‑
exercised at general quarters. 27
Jan 1813 Fresh gales ‑‑
"regular NE trades" ‑‑ exercised at general quarters. 28
Jan 1813 Fresh gales ‑‑ 10
kts (2 hours). 29
Jan 1813 0130 "Lt John C. Elwin
[sic] Died of his Wounds" ‑‑ 1130 Aylwin buried at sea with military honors ‑‑
fresh trades ‑‑ exercised at general quarters ‑‑ 10 kts (2 hours) ‑‑
11 kts (3 hours). 30
Jan 1813 Strong winds ‑‑ 11
kts (2 hours) ‑‑ 10 kts (3 hours). 31
Jan 1813 Moderate ‑‑ 11 kts
(4 hours). 1 Feb 1813
Pleasant ‑‑ 10 kts (3 hours). 2 Feb 1813
Pleasant. 3 Feb 1813
Fresh winds. 4 Feb 1813
Cloudy ‑‑ exercised at general quarters ‑‑ 822
miles to 5 Feb 1813
Light airs. 6 Feb 1813
Squally. 7 Feb 1813
Squally ‑‑ 1200 buried Peter Furnace, who died of wounds ‑‑
8 Feb 1813
Fresh breezes. 9 Feb 1813
Cloudy. 10
Feb 1813 Disagreeable weather. 11
Feb 1813 Got " 12
Feb 1813 Cloudy ‑‑ going
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