We recently posted about an upcoming event at Mystic Seaport Museum honoring the bicentenial of the War of 1812 which features the privateer schooner Lynx.   We also posted about an on-line documentary, the Privateer Lynx.  While we are focussing on on the Lynx, it seems worthwhile to post a review by Linda Collison of a book published by the Lynx Educational Foundation, America’s Privateer, Lynx and the War of 1812 by J. Dennis Robinson.

America’s Privateer tells the story of Lynx, a ship with two lives that sailed in two different centuries. The first Lynx was built in Fells Point, Maryland 1812.  Captured early in the war, the British Admiralty was so impressed by the design that they recorded her lines.  In 2001, Woodson K. Woods, an entrepreneur and lifelong sailor, brought the 1812 Lynx back to life as a modern privateer inspired by the original plans. The first square-topsail, wooden schooner built in Rockport, Maine since 1885, Lynx sails America’s coasts, teaching young people about the craft of sailing a privateer, and of the history of the War of 1812. In  America’s Privateer, J. Dennis Robinson brings the story of the schooners named Lynx to life against the backdrop of the oft forgotten War of 1812.

Linda Collison is the author of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, Star Crossed (soon to be re-released by Fireship Press as Barbados Bound) and Surgeon’s Mate.  She has sailed on the privateer Lynx as well as serving as crew on HMS Endeavour.   Linda’s review of  America’s Privateer, Lynx and the War of 1812 by J. Dennis Robinson, originally published on her blog Sea of Words.  Reposted with permission.

America’s Privateer — more than a coffee table book
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