Identify This!!! 1.0

You may not know much about liners but you certainly know your way around pictures Searat ! You're up!

OK, so much for the French (for the moment!).  Here is a pilot schooner, once the pride of the Boston Pilots, and a notably fast sailer.  What is its name, and what was the name of the boat that finally defeated her?

  Dear Searat12:  I'm guessing. The pilot boat in question can either be the Dancing Feather of 1853 or the Hesper of 1884. I do not know what boat defeated her.

                         Is guessing two pilot boats acceptable ?

  Montani semper liberi ! Happy modeling to all and every one of you. 

                                    Crackers

I'll try my best at this.....

During the war of 1812 owners of private vessels were given permission to prey upon the enemys shipping giving them the name "privateers." Among those first privateers to take to the seas was this tops'l schooner Her commission was dated less than a month after the declaration war, on July 14th 1812. Built to attack enemy merchant ships, she carried six 12-pounders and a crew of forty men. Unfortunately, she was captured at the mouth of the Rappahannock River by the British the following spring and was put into service for the Royal Navy.

searat12 wrote:

Nice Baltimore Clipper!  The 'Lynx?'

You are correct!

It appears we must make these a bit tougher...... Here is a very famous ship with a very long career.  As a hint, I can tell you that it was eventually captured and burnt!  What was the name of this ship, and in what battle was it captured and burned?

searat12 wrote:

You amaze me sir!  Correct!

It's funny I just happened to have read things related to both ships in the past couple of days. pure luck really.

ok here's a tough one, maybe..... i can't post a picture because it would be a dead giveaway on this particular ship.

This king had the nickname of "the Lion of the North" in the 1600's he had commisioned 4 ships to be built. 3 of these ships are lesser known but the 4th is quite famous. the 3 sisterships are; Tre Kroner, Mercuris, and Applet.

It's vague but i think that any more clues would make it easy.

searat12 wrote:

Vasa?

you sir are correct

Here's an interesting type of gaff cutter, which was used (sometimes with different rigs in earlier days) to carry small cargo up until the early 19th century.  You can see it's relationship with the old Viking longships, as well as the later Cog.  What kind of boat is this?

Humber perhaps. 

Is it a Manx Nobby?

Maybe a Wherry then, although I didn't think they were specific to thr IoM

First I was three, then I was one.

First I had broadsides, then I had none,

First I was sail, then I was screw,

Now I have turrets and one funnel too.

My forebear was famous, my heir she was strong

 Who can I be? - don't take too long.

I'm pretty sure it must be HMS Royal Sovereign 1857, a converted Duke of Wellington class three-decker.

Nice rhyme btw

Well done Bryan, you surely know your pre-dreadnoughts. I shall have to move era to test you further, on second thoughts I think I already have over on the Trivia quiz.

Can any ship ever have been so messed about with; converted on the stocks to to screw, then put into ordinary, then cut down to the lower deck, clad in iron and fitted with turrets, but she was the first and only wooden turret ship in the British Navy.