Prince de Neufchâtel

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The Prince de Neufchatel was a fast sailing american schooner rigged privateer built in New York by Noah and Adam Brown in approximately 1812.She is a fine example of the peak of development of the armed schooner.

She was 33.73 meters long at the gundeck, 7.82 meters abeam, displaced 328 english tons. Her armament consisted of sixteen 12 pound carronades and two long six pounders.

She cruised in mainly european waters doing a lot of damage to British shipping during the war of 1812. Noted for her speed,at one time she out ran seventeen men-o-war. She also at one piont in her career fought off the boats of the British frigate Endymion.

She met her fate during a December 1814 gale when she couldn't out run three British frigates and was forced to surrender.

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