| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | Actress |
| Captured | 18 July 1812 |
 United Kingdom | |
| Name | Dart |
| Owner | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Acquired | 1812 by purchase of a prize |
| Captured | 22 October 1813 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Sloop |
| Tons burthen | 47 (bm) |
| Length | 60 ft (18.3 m) |
| Beam | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Complement | 25 |
| Armament | 4 carronades plus swivel guns. (Addition of a 12 pound carronade after her first voyage).[1][2] |
Dart was a privateer sloop out of Saint John, New Brunswick during the War of 1812. Dart took 11 prizes in her five-month run and two cruises before an American ship captured her in October 1813. Dart is unique because a logbook of one of her voyages (22 May 1813 to 9 June 1813) survives at the Dalhousie University Archives along with full crew lists and the articles of agreement at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, which make Dart one of the best-documented privateer vessels of the War of 1812.[3][4]
- ^ "Privateer Sloop Dart 1813". Retrieved 17 October 2012.
- ^ Snider (1928), pp. 52–83.
- ^ Nova Scotia Archives. "A Journal of the Proceedings on board the Sloop Dart Privateer of St. John New Brunswick, John Harris Commander, commencing May 22th [sic], 1813, Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, William Inglis Morse Collection". Archived from the original on 25 November 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
- ^ Kert (2005), p. 44.