A Curtail'd Memoir of Incidents and Occurrences

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Excerpt from A Curtail'd Memoir of Incidents and Occurrences: In the Life of John Surman Carden, Vice Admiral in the British Navy The naval officer whose autobiography is contained in these pages is not one of the members of his profession whose names are familiar to the reading public in general. By the much more limited circle of students of naval history he may indeed be remembered, but for a very painful incident in his career. In the opening stages of the war of 1812-14 against the United States it fell to the lot of more than one commander of a British frigate to undergo the humiliation of hauling down the Union Jack after an action against a single ship. Among this ill-fated band John Surman Carden finds a place. The capture of H.M.'s frigate Macedonian by the much larger and more heavily-gunned United States was not in itself discreditable either to the commander or the crew of the British man-of-war. The Macedonian succumbed to superior force after a gallant fight, after incurring very considerable losses and only when the almost complete destruction of her masts and rigging had rendered her incapable of movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.