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Show It has often been stated that tho American frigate President, captured by British cruisers during the War of 1812, was still in existence in an English Eng-lish dockyard. But a letter in tho Lon-don Lon-don Mall makes a contrary assertion. Tho writer says It may Interest some readers, and especially American ones, to know that tho President, which has long been a drill ship lu tho West India docks, and which Is now to be disposed of, is not tho famous American frigate President captured by tho Endyinlon and consorts in 1815. Tho original President, of which a model may be seen in Greenwich, was broken up at Portsmouth, In June, 1818. "Tho existing exist-ing President, launched in 1830 at Portsmouth, wns built on the same lines, and contains some of tho timber of tho old vessel, but has no other historical his-torical associations which seem to call for her preservation hero or la the' United States." |