"Not Very Much Celebrated:" The Evolution and Nature of the Provincial Marine, 1755-1813

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The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord (St. John's, NL), Jan 2001, p. 25-37
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"Not Very Much Celebrated:" The Evolution and Nature of the Provincial Marine, 1755-1813


After applauding land successes at Detroit and Queenston, Strachan condemned the inability of the Provincial Marine to operate as an effective naval force, an opinion shared by Sir George Prevost and other key British officers. The opinion of at least one individual on the quarterdeck of the Provincial Marine was different. This essay aims to settle the difference between the comments made by Strachan and Richardson by tracing the development of naval forces on the Great Lakes from their origins in the Seven Years' War to the autumn of 1812. The point will be made that the Provincial Marine, as it existed in 1812, had only a faint tradition of naval tactics since it, and the organizations that preceded it, had been primarily employed as a frugally operated transport service for the better part of five decades.