USS Tickler
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The USS Tickler was a one gun dispatch sloop
Sloop-of-war
In the 18th and most of the 19th centuries, a sloop-of-war was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. As the rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above, this meant that the term sloop-of-war actually encompassed all the unrated combat vessels including the...
used as a bomb ketch by the United States
United States
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Navy. Purchased in August 1812, she weighed fifty tons, but further dimensions and its builder are not known. Tickler was captured by the British
United Kingdom
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in the Battle of Lake Borgne
Battle of Lake Borgne
The Battle of Lake Borgne was a naval battle between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy in the American South theatre of the War of 1812. It occurred on 14 December 1814 on Lake Borgne and was part of the British advance on New Orleans.-Background:...
and returned after the war. She was sold in New Orleans in 1818.