Liverpool Packet was a privateer schooner from Liverpool, Nova Scotia, which captured 50 American vessels in the War of 1812. During the war the privateer schooner was briefly captured by American privateers, but was soon recaptured by the British and returned to raiding American commerce. The Liverpool Packet was the most successful privateer vessel ever to sail out of a Canadian port.
Read more about Liverpool Packet: Canadian Privateer, War of 1812, Fate, Post Script, Footnotes
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