North, Lord, despair of, on hearing of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, i. 299. Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Porter brings the _Essex_ and his fleet of captured whalers here to refit, iii. 16; a sailor’s paradise, 19; an incipient mutiny at, 21–23. _Nymphe_, British frigate, chased by the _President_ and _Congress_, ii. 151. Ocracoke Inlet, fort at, iv. 108. _Octorara_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 386. Ogdensburg, N. Y., British attack on, ii. 268. “Old Glory” first hoisted, i. 135. “Old Ironsides” (the _Constitution_), i. 312. “Old Sow, The,” ii. 267. Old-time naval officers, iii. 305–307. _Old War Horse_, another name for the _Benton_, iv. 249. Olney, Captain Joseph, i. 163. “On to Canada,” the war-cry of 1812, ii. 20. _Oneida_, American war-brig, ii. 264; captures the _Lord Nelson_, 265; Commodore Earle attempts to capture, 266. _Oneida_, Federal screw corvette, iv. 314. _Oneida_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389. _Ontario_, American sloop-of-war, sent against the Dey of Algiers in 1815, iii. 343. Ontario, Lake, operations on, iii. 113–129. Ordronaux, Captain J., attacked by the British frigate _Endymion_, iii. 202–207. _Oreto_, Confederate cruiser. See _Florida_. _Orpheus_, British frigate, captures the _Confederacy_, i. 298. _Orpheus_, British frigate, with the _Sherburne_, attacks and captures the _Frolic_, iii. 65, 66. _Osage_, Federal gun-boat, iv, 369; sunk by a torpedo, 406. _Ossipee_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 389. _Ottawa_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 163. _Ottawa_, Federal war-ship, attacked ironclad _Palmetto State_, iv. 474. Otter Creek, Vt., Macdonough fortifies, iii. 137. _Ouachita_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 369. Owen, Lieutenant-commander E. K., iv. 363, 369. _Ozark_, Federal gun-boat, iv. 370. Pacific coast, naval operations on the, in 1842, iii. 389–428. Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael, in command of the British forces to attack New Orleans, reaches the Chandeleur Islands, iii. 230. _Pallas_, American ship, i. 232; _Countess of Scarborough_ surrenders to, 267. _Palmetto State_, Confederate ironclad, iv. 473; armament of, _ib._; attacks the _Mercedita_, 474; paroles her crew, 475. _Palmira_, Porto Rico privateer, plunders American schooner _Coquette_, and is captured by the _Grampus_, iii. 332. Pamlico Sound, N. C., a rendezvous for Confederate privateers, iv. 94. _Pandrita_, pirate ship, captured by the _Grampus_, iii. 332. Paper blockade, Navy Department tries to establish, iv. 41. Parker, Captain John, at Lexington, i. 14. Parker, Lieutenant, in the _Java_ fight, ii. 165. Parker, Lieutenant George, dies at sea, iii. 78; a story of sailors’ superstition in connection with his death, 78, 79. Parker, Lieutenant, the _Congress_ surrenders to, iv. 208.