The volumes below are just some on the subject, I’d be glad to hear of other recommendations – particularly on individual vessel histories |
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Edgar S. Maclay, History of American Privateers (New York: D.Appleton and Company, 1899) covers the American Revolution and war of 1812. Available on http://www.archive.org George Coggeshall, History of the American privateers, and letters of marquee, during our war with England in the years 1812, ’13 and ’14. Interspersed with several naval battles between American and British ships of war. (New York, 1856) Available on http://www.archive.org John P. Cranwell and William B. Crane, Men of Marque: A history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812 ( New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1940 Jerome R. Garitee, The Republic’s Private Navy: the American privateering business as practiced by Baltimore during the War of 1812 (Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1977) John A. McManemin, Privateers of the War of 1812 (New Jersey: Ho-Ho-Kus publishing company, 1992) John A. McManemin, Captains of the Privateers of the War of 1812 (New Jersey: Ho-Ho-Kus publishing company, 1994) Harold A. Mouzon Privateers of Charleston in the War of 1812 (Charleston: Historical Commission of Charleston, 1954) Available here Robert E. Peabody, The Log of the Grand Turks (Massachusetts:The Riverside Press, 1926) Michael Rutstein, Fame: the Salem privateer (Massachusetts: Boxford, Pennant Enterprise Inc., 2006) www.SchoonerFame.com On the naval side there is; Ira Dye, The Fatal Cruise of the Argus: two captains in the War of 1812 (Maryland: Naval Institute Press 1994) William S. Dudley, ed. The Naval War of 1812: a documentary history, 3 volumes (Washington: Naval Historical Center, 1985) For accounts of those who participated in the War generally the sources for personal accounts can be found in; John C. Fredricksen, compiler. War of 1812 Eyewitness Accounts: an annotated bibliography (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997 There is little material on the British side, but for an earlier period there is, David J. Starkey British Privateering Enterprise in the Eighteenth century (UK: University of Exeter Press, 1990) - see Prize Law for this work. Google scholar will give note of the latest academic work. Contemporary accounts.
For events in the United States there is Niles Weekly Register which covered the events of the war both on land and sea. Niles Weekly Register for the period can be found on the http://www.archive.org as well as much material not easily available elsewhere. For convenience Niles Weekly Register can be downloaded from the links below: |
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For marine information in the UK there is Lloyd’s List which covered marine news and shipping movements; principally for the merchant shipping community but now a valuable source for those interested in maritime activity of the period. Recently the Guildhall Library in London has published an index to the Marine News section.
Using that index to locate a particular ship or master etc. and with that information the menu below will give you the scanned image. NOTE: in the personal name field the initial of the Master's surname will narrow the search, particularly useful iif the vessel has a common name. Here it would only be correct to make mention of those volunteers who undertook such an immense task. Please report any problems – broken links etc to editor@1812privateers.org I’ll correct them and report back to you. Prior to the Guildhall Library index going on-line I'd indexed the entire volume for 1812 - this gives you an opportunity to trace a vessels voyages and unlike the Guildhall index I've indicated which column contains the information.
I recently found this invaluable site giving you access to the full run of Lloyd's List and Lloyd's Register and much more....
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 WAR of 1812 for Lloyds's List 1793-1816 |
