British Man-O-War Bream

"Of these 18 men of war schooners six only were built at Bermuda, and like the others, were named after the piscatory tribe: Bream, Chubb, Cuttle, Mullet, Porgay and Tang." [Source]

War of 1812 Era Illustration

From A History of American Privateers:

The Wasp, Captain E. Ewing (or Ervin), also was a Salem privateer that was captured by an English cruiser but not until she inflicted some injury on the enemy's commerce.

[The Wasp] was chased...by the British man of war Bream... . .....Captain Ewing made every effort to escape.  The Bream gave chase, and for nine hours kept the Wasp in sight and gained on her. When in easy gunshot the English opened a heavy fire, which the Americans returned as well as they could for forty minutes, when they surrendered. The British lieutenant commanding the Bream treated his prisoners with exceptional courtesy.

Image From A Privateer's Pension

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Pension application on behalf of Frances Bradley, widow of Micah Bradley, who was a captain's clerk on board a privateer.

British Lieutenant Charles Hare

From Testimonials and memorials of the services of Lieut. Charles Hare, of the ...:

This is to Certify that Lieutenant Charles Hare, served under my orders in the command of H.M. Schooner Bream, when I was senior Officer commanding the Squadron in the Bay of Fundy, in Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen and Eighteen Hundred and Fourteen, stationed for protecting the frontier of New Brunswick, in the war with the United States of America. That the activity and enterprize displayed by Lieutenant Hare, in destroying the American coasting trade, and capturing their small Privateers between Boston and Saint John, was the admiration of Admiral Griffith, of Sir Philip Broke, of myself, and of every officer who knew him.
H. Le Fleming Senhouse, Commodore Bay Of Fundy

Privateer Grand Turk

From The diary of Benjamin F. Palmer......

The American Privateer, Grand Turk

....by Benjamin Franklin Palmer

A Tribute To Captain Otway Burns

From Captain Otway Burns, patriot, privateer and legislator ...

Below is an excerpt of a tribute to Captain Otway Burns, privateer, in a ceremony that took place in Raleigh, NC, on October 30, 1901:

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Prizes For The Benjamin Franklin

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From A History Of American Privateers:

Notwithstanding the fact that the British maintained a rigorous blockade off Sandy Hook and in Long Island Sound in the course of the war, New York managed to send to sea fifty-five privateers. ...the Benjamin Franklin was one of the first to get to sea, leaving port about July 24, 1812, and returning August 24th, in which time she made seven prizes and twenty-eight prisoners. This privateer was a schooner carrying eight guns and one hundred and twenty men, under the command of Captain J. Ingersoll.

Jim's Photo Of A Tall Ship

In general, the conduct of American privateersmen on the high seas was most commendable. They showed themselves to be not only daring, but gentlemanly. When the schooner Industry, Captain Eenneaux, a prize to the privateer Benjamin Franklin, Captain Ingersol, of New York, reached that port, August 24, 1812, it was learned that the craft belonged to a widow whose only dependence was on the earnings of that vessel. Although the Industry had two thousand dollars' worth of goods aboard, the Americans restored her and her cargo to the widow. 

Melee At Fort Macon

Mess Hall At Fort Macon

During the war of 1812 there were some 300 soldiers, mostly militia, at Fort Macon just opposite Beaufort.  On one occasion, when [Captain Otway] Burns was in port, some of them, having gotten into a row with citizens of the town while drunk, were being roughly handled. They called out the rest of their comrades to whom some of the officers very foolishly issued 12 rounds of ammunition per man. Captain Burns interposed and his exertions alone saved bloodshed. One of the soldiers, however, struck him, and Burns promptly knocked the man down. When this news reached the ears of the crew of the Snap Dragon, they came en masse to avenge the insult. It required all Burns eloquence to quiet his men, who very probably would have taken the fort and all the militia.  Source:  Captain Otway Burns, patriot, privateer and legislator ...

Captain Otway Burns In The Old Burying Ground

Otway Burns, a Privateer from Swansboro, North Carolina:

Captain Otway Burns Is Buried At The Old Burying Ground, Beaufort, North Carolina

An Early Sea Battle

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On June 23, 1812, there was a sea battle when the HMS Belvidera encountered the U.S. Navy's USS President, USS Congress and the USS United States.

A contemporary newspaper account can be found here.

Privateers' Six Month Success

From Captain Otway Burns, patriot, privateer and legislator ...:

Privateer Captain Otway Burns

Correction to the original post:  Below is a portrait of Captain Otway Burns.

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Update and correction:  The portrait below is a depiction of Captain Owen Burns, Otway's son, not Otway Burns as originally posted.

From Captain Otway Burns, patriot, privateer and legislator ...:

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It was probably required that application for letters of Marque and Reprisal should be renewed before each voyage for we have a copy of the application made by Captain Burns on July 1, 1813.  In that he specifies that the vessel is of 147 tons burthen named "Snap Dragon", number of crew 75, armament 5 carriage guns, 50 muskets and 4 blunderbusses, Captain, Otway Burns; First Lieutenant James Brown.

Otway Burns was born in the county of Onslow... .  He was born on Queen's Creek two miles from Swannsboro in the year 1775.  His father also named Otway Burns was born at the same place. The father of the latter, Francis Burns, settled in North Carolina in 1734, coming from Glasgow Scotland.