Everything about The Rover Privateering Ship totally explained
Rover was a
privateer brig out of
Liverpool, Nova Scotia. She was built in Brooklyn,
Nova Scotia (then known as Herring Cove) over the winter of 1799-1800.
Rover was 100 tons and carried fourteen 4 pound cannon.
Rover was owned by a group of merchants from
Liverpool, Nova Scotia led by
Simeon Perkins and Snow Parker. The brig was commanded by
Alexander Godfrey under a British
letter of marque.
Rover won fame with several bold engagements, including a single handed attack on a French convoy but she's most famous for a battle off the coast of South American with the Spanish naval
schooner,
Santa Rita, and three accompanying gunboats. Off the coast of
Venezuela in 1800,
Rover captured
Santa Rita of ten 6 pounders with two
carronades and two
gunboats, totaling a crew of 125.
Rover didn't lose a single man of its crew of 55. The capture made Godfrey a hero in British naval circles. He was celebrated in the British Naval Chronicle and offered a commission in the
Royal Navy but declined.
Later cruises by
Rover were less successful. A subsequent captain, Benjamin Collins, lost his letter of marque and created trouble for
Rover's owners with the illegal capture of several merchants. After 1803, she was sold to
Halifax owners who employed her as a merchant vessel. She later capsized and sank in the
West Indies.
In the 20th century the Mersey Paper Company in
Rover's old home port of
Liverpool, Nova Scotia named one of its pulp and paper steamships after the privateer brig. In addition to writing a history of
Rover, Nova Scotian writer
Thomas H. Raddall also based his 1948 novel
Pride's Fancy on the brig
Rover.
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