Gravestones Crews of USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon

These two headstones on CFB Halifax are on the graves of the killed crewmembers of the USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon: Left of the USS Chesapeake (48 killed) and right of the HMS Shannon (23 killed).
They were killed in the Battle of Boston Harbor on 1 June 1813, during the War of 1812, when the USS Chesapeake was captured by the HMS Shannon. The Chesapeake conquest was a famous naval action for the Royal Navy and was also famous in the United States for the dying Captain James Lawrence's last words: "Don't give up the ship."

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Hantsheroes