Identify This!!! 1.0

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.

  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

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?

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

Thank you Fred!

New picture. Please describe the scene. What year is it, where is it, what was the occasion and who were involved? You don't have to know the name of the ship in the middle, but bonus-points of you do!

Bryano1 has the right answer for the liner, so you have the floor.

Mechtech, good guess on the USS Pueblo, but not quite. They are similar sized ships with military origins.

The small ship is the Jacques Cousteau's Calypso. She was a converted minesweeper.

Take it away Bryan..

Fred

I think the liner is S.S. Independence but I have no idea what the small vessel is.

OK, time for an easier one.

Name the liner, but for extra credit, there is a very famous ship in the picture, the small vessel in front of the liner. I think if it was a better picture it would be instantly recognizable to any TV viewer.

Fred

Thats right, its the USS Camanche, a Passaic class monitor designed by John Ericsson.  The floor is yours.

USS Camanche.  Google knows all!

Fred

Not the ship - but a very good guess. 

This ship was built in New Jersey in 1863, and one of a class of ten ships designed by a Swede. The ship class is named for a river, town and county in New Jersey. She is the only ship in her class not named for an eastern location.

Not being able to see (or hit) her is the point of the design.  There is a Swedish connection somewhere.

All right, here goes . . .

This ship served its entire career next to the later home of the Bird Man. 

Nice sight to see come out of the fog . . the Kalmar Nyckel.

Right!  A couple years ago, I was delivering a yacht to Duxbury, Massachusetts on a foggy day.  As I was enterin the harbor, what should come looming out of the mist, but apparently the Flying Dutchman himself!!!  However, as the ship came closer, I could see the American flag to great relief.... What ship is this?  Here is a hint, it is an excellent reproduction of a ship that delivered colonists to America, but from where did she come, and where did she arrive?

Spot on Searat, which is more than you can say for Tiger. In the Battle of the Dogger Bank she managed only one hit out of 255 shots. Mind you, even if she couldn't dish it out she could take it, surviving (15) hits by 11" shells at Jutland.

You're up!

Here's a fairly straightforward one for you men of steel.

She was one on her own, fought in three battles, but was she as good as she looked?

George, thats right.  Bonaventure roughly means "good luck."   

 The floor is yours.