Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 396
s in the nav)-, rangingfrom 44-gun frigates to 12-gun brigs. There were also 176 gunboats, onwhich a large sum of money had been expended, but which were of no usewhatever. The annual abstracts of the British navy show that it possessedat this time 230 ships-of-the-line, of from 60 to 120 guns… … THE CO-XsTITUTIOX. Immediately after the declaration of war, the frigates in commission inthe home ports, together with two of the sloops, put to sea as a squadronunder Commodore John Rodgers. They fell in with the English frigate Belvidera, but she got away from them ; and after an ineffectual…
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