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    NAME: HMS Nancy
    REASON: burnt, act of war
    OTHER NAMES(s): 
    DATE:  August 14, 1814
    LOCATION: Lake Huron
    TYPE: schooner
    HULL TYPE: wooden
    BUILDER: 1789
    OWNER:  
    MASTER: Captain Mackintosh, Lt. Miller Worsley, Cmdr.
    TONNAGE: 
    LENGTH: 
    BEAM: 
    DEPTH: 
    CASUALTIES: 0
    SURVIVORS: 

                          Erie, Pa - Sept 2.
                           Arrived on Wednesday the Niagara, Com.
                         Sinclair, from Detroit.  The Lawrence 
                         passed here on the same day on her way
                         to Fort Erie. After the attack on Macki-
                         naw Com. Sinclair proceeded in search of
                         the schooner Nancy, and found her at anchor
                         under the guns of a block house, at the
                         mouth of the Nottawasaga River, at the
                         eastern extremity of Lake Huron. A fire
                         was commenced on the enemy, and returned
                         from two 24 pounders, that had been taken
                         from the schooner and mounted on the
                         Block house; in a short time both were 
                         blown up.  The guns were brought away.
                           The Buffalo Gazette
                             Tuesday, September 13, 1814
                         
           Before the war of 1812 was a supply vessel for the North
         West Company. Became a chartered supply ship for the British.
         After the Americans defeated the British in the Battle of
         Lake Erie on September 10, 1813, the schooner Nancy was the
         only armed British vessel left on the upper Great Lakes.
         Officially transferred to the Royal Navy in the spring of
         1814.
         
         Following the British defeat on Lake Erie the Nancy was hidden
         upriver of the mouth of the Nottawasaga River and a block house
         erected.  It was there that on August 14, 1814, the Nancy was
         found by three American ships and commenced the attack.  Worsley
         ordered the Nancy scuttled rather than fall into American hands.
         A powder train was laid between the Nancy and the blockhouse and
         lit, setting fire to the Nancy.
         
         In later years an island formed around the sunken hull of the
         Nancy.  In 1927 the hull was discovered, unearthed and raised.
         
         The hull of the Nancy is now in a climate controlled chamber
         in the Wasaga Beach complex
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Sources: "Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes", Dana Thomas Bowen
          news article "The Buffalo Gazette" Sept. 13, 1814
          Nancy Island National Historic Site of Canada