Lively Class Frigate
The ''Lively'' class were a successful class of sixteen United Kingdom, British Royal Navy 38-gun sailing frigates. Origins The ''Lively'' class were a series of sixteen ships built to a 1799 design by Sir William Rule, which served in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The prototype and name ship of the class was of 1804. In contemporary usage the class was referred to as the 'Repeat Lively class'. As such the prototype ship was not considered to be part of the class at the time. They were considered the most successful British frigate design of the period, much prized by the Navy Board; after the prototype was launched in 1804 (by which time four more frigates had already been ordered to the same design), a further eleven sister-ships were ordered to her design, although this was slightly modified (in 1805) to have the gangways between forecastle and quarterdeck more integrated into the upperworks, a step towards the final enclosure of the waist. This was reinforced in ...
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Engagement Between The United States And The Macedonian
''Engagement between the ''United States'' and the ''Macedonian is 1813 oil painting by American painter Thomas Birch depicting the naval engagement fought near Madeira on October 25, 1812 between the US Navy heavy frigate and the Royal Navy frigate . The battle resulted in the capture of the ''Macedonian'', which became the first British warship to be brought to an American harbour as a prize. Birch painted the subject at least three times. An original painting was displayed in the Oval Office at the White House from 1961 to 1963 during the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy made plans to redecorate the Oval Office after his inauguration in 1961, and he wanted a painting of a naval battle to hang over the fireplace. A report in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' led J. Welles Henderson (the lawyer, and son of Joseph Welles Henderson) to lend a painting of the engagement between the ''United States'' and the ''Macedonian'' and a second naval painting by Birch, which were p ...
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