Liverpool Packet

For other ships with the same name, see Liverpool Packet (ship) and Severn (ship).
History
Nova Scotia
NameLiverpool Packet
OwnerEnos Collins, John Allison, Joseph Barss
Port of registryHalifax, Nova Scotia
Commissioned20 August 1812
HomeportLiverpool, Nova Scotia
Nickname(s)
Honours and
awards		50 captures
FateSold to Jamaican owners after 1816
General characteristics
TypePrivateer schooner
Tons burthen55, or 67 (bm)
Sail planTopsail schooner
Crew40
Armament
  • Severn:2 × 1-pounder guns[1]
  • Liverpool Packet:2 × 4-pounder guns + 2 × 12-pounder carronades + 1 × 6-pounder gun

Liverpool Packet was originally the American slave ship Severn, built at Baltimore and captured in 1811. She became a privateer schooner from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, that captured 50 American vessels in the War of 1812. American privateers captured Liverpool Packet in 1813, but she failed to take any prizes during the four months before she was recaptured. She was repurchased by her original Nova Scotia owners and returned to raiding American commerce. Liverpool Packet was the most successful privateer vessel ever to sail out of a Canadian port.[2]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Stewart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Leefe (1978), p. 9.