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The Burning of the Turkish Flagship Two hundred and forty-five years ago, precursors to America’s nascent special operations forces got off to a rough start.
In August 1776, in the warm air of a summer night, two American ships glided silently toward their prey: the British twenty-gun HMS Rose and the forty-four-gun HMS Phoenix, the battleship of its time . Under the cloak of darkness, the unsuspecting British warships lay anchored in the Hudson River north of New York City. “The night was dark and favorable to our design, and the enemy did not perceive our vessels until they were near aboard them,” recalled one Patriot.
The American crews specifically assembled from volunteers for this special mission, led by Marblehead captain Thomas Fosdick, knew that this could be their last. Fosdick had experienced a meteoric rise from the rank of fifer to ensign to captain. With trepidation and anticipation warring within them, the men, daredevils all, tensed themselves for the order they knew was coming. At the last possible second, the signal came.
Whoosh!
As the designated crew members lit their own ships on fire, the floating forests of kindling suddenly erupted into a mass of heat and light. The British sailors aboard the Rose and Phoenix , roused from their sleepy stupor, immediately grasped the danger in front of them. The Marbleheaders were attempting a daring special operations mission: ramming their fireships into the British vessels with the hopes of setting them ablaze.
Fosdick and his men tossed grappling hooks onto the British vessels and then quickly abandoned ship. While the British sailors panicked, the British captains were not so easily fazed. Both remained cool enough in the face of the approaching fire to cut the ropes drawing them closer to the fireships. However, the captain of the Phoenix was not fast enough to avoid his vessel being boarded by the Americans. And the Rose , despite the captain’s desperate maneuverings, could not escape from the conflagration. The captain of the Rose recorded in his journal that the Americans “set the Tender Instantly in a Blaze,…we veer’d away but finding we could not […]
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