Produced by Greg Bergquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) YANKEE SHIPS AND YANKEE SAILORS:--TALES OF 1812 [Illustration: "It was Lieutenant Allen!"] Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors:--Tales of 1812 By James Barnes Author of "Naval Engagements of the War of 1812" "A Loyal Traitor," "For King or Country," etc. With Numerous Illustrations by R. F. Zogbaum and Carlton T. Chapman. New York The Macmillan Company London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1897 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1897, By The Macmillan Company. Set up and electrotyped October, 1897. Reprinted November, 1897. _Norwood Press J. S. Cusbing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Norwood Mass. U.S.A._ _To my Brother_ PREFACE In presenting this volume of "Tales of 1812" it is not the intention of the author to give detailed accounts of actions at sea or to present biographical sketches of well-known heroes; he wishes but to tell something of the ships that fought the battles, whose names are inseparably connected with a glorious past, and to relate incidents connected with the Yankee sailors who composed their crews--"A Yankee Ship and a Yankee Crew"--thus runs the old song; it is to exploit both in a measure that is the intention of this book. Brave fellows, these old-time Jackies were. Their day has gone by with the departed day also, of the storm-along captains, the men who carried sail in all sorts of weather, who took their vessels through dangerous passages unmarked by buoys, with only the fickle wind to drive them, who sailed into the enemy's cruising-grounds, and counting on the good Yankee pine and live oak, had perilous escapes and adventures which fiction cannot exaggerate. It stirs one's blood to read of these. Surely, it will not arouse a hatred for by-gone enemies, to hark back to them.