The news is interesting. THE PRIVATEER RETRIBUTION. From the St. Kitts Gazette, 13th. The U.S. sloop-of-war Alabama anchored in our Roadstead on Wednesday morning last, from Guadaloupe.

Jim “Swannie” Watkins had started building a significant replica of the War of 1812 sloop USS Trippe. For years the unfinished boat sat down at at Silo City, waiting for the perfect storm to ...