As a Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.....
In a continuing series to slap the gulag pimp and whore to a reality of they are not Americans, but gulag inmates, this blog answers a question unknown upon inquiry in God's Grace, as stories require telling and this is one.
One of President Theodore Roosevelt's pet vessels was the schooner USS Wasp of the War of 1812. The first Wasp was a plucky little thing that smashed a British vessel and then was captured by a British main ship.
Her replacement was so honored with her name, and came under the command of Captain Johnson Blakeley of South Carolina.
Blakeley and his crew soon enough set off in the war, but decided to go into the mouth of the British lion to hunt on the very coast of England and Europe. This was an era when no Continental ship dared leave port. The mighty French Navy of double deckers anchored in port as British squadrons anchored in their port entrances keeping Pax Britania about the globe.
It was only the small American fleet which challenged in 1812 and the little Wasp sailed in, made prizes of British merchantmen, was chased by main ships and finally engaged the HMS Reindeer, commanded by a fine crew, and a fiery commander, Capt. Manners, which after a hell fire fight, fell to the Americans and was burned.
Capt. Manners wounded tried to rally his repulsed seadogs from the Wasp and received a ball to his brain from the Americans, ending his gallant fight.
The Wasp then sailed and cut out a merchantman under the guns of her protectors, and continued on to hit the Amora, a well armed brig.
Th Amora signaled two other British ships who came to her assistance, but it was too late as she was sinking by the well regulated fire of the American gunners.
It would be after this in making several other prizes and having spoke to a Swedish brig on October 9th that the Wasp and her crew would disappear in never having been heard from again.
This is the exclusive of this blog for the families and the Americans in answering what her fate was.
Captain Blakeley decided upon a new venture as he took on supplies off the coast of South Africa, in he would enter waters he intended to boil, as Porter had in entering the Pacific off South America in making war on the British there in places they deemed safe.
The Wasp set sail for India and intended to announce with all compliments the American presence in those British controlled waters.
It was on the day of October 21st that the waters of the central Indian Ocean had birthed a typhoon to which the Wasp was running into and caught. By night the seas were running over 30 feet as she was driven along in those ocean peaks and canyons with Captain Blakeley in command.
Shortly after 1 AM, at the storm's pitch, a monstrous wave of around 40 feet broke as the Wasp was in the valley of the deep, and brave ship was enveloped in that watery shroud. She was not broken apart, but simply taken down.
Thirty one sailors, including Captain Blakeley escaped the confines of the ship, to the surface, but within moments had given all for their American nation.
That is the tale of the gallant crew and ship, which bravely plied enemy waters for America at war.
My compliments to Captain Blakely, her fine crew and the USS Wasp.
nuff said
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