Frigate - The Relentless Hunter That Ruled the High Seas

The Chesapeake came apart under disciplined British gunnery, her wheel shot away, her captain mortally wounded, her crew overwhelmed by boarders before the smoke had settled. Lawrence was carried below uttering the words that would echo through American naval memory for two centuries: "Don't give up the ship." The ship was given up. And the crowd on the hills, who had arrived with their lunches and their confidence, watched the British sail their prize into the Atlantic and north toward Halifax.