The HMS Sylph with the HMS Maidstone close behind by B. J. Phillips
The H.M.S. Sylph was constructed in Bermuda in 1812, but was not the first ship to have the name Sylph. Although rated an '18' (based on the number of cannons aboard a traditional sloop-of-war) she was actually armed with sixteen 24-pounder carronades, two long 12-pounders and two 12-pound carronades.
During the months of June and July 1814 the Sylph was extensively active in the interruption of commerce and the capture or destruction of merchant vessels on Long Island Sound. On May 11th the Sylph captured the merchant sloop Grace and took her cargo of iron and dismantled her for fuel. On the 18th the Sylph along with the Frigate H.M.S. Maidstone fired upon a Swedish vessel prior to joining the remainder of the British squadron in blockading the Sound. The blockade, in addition to the Sylph and Maidstone, included the H.M.S. Bulwark and Nimrod. On May 25th the Sylph and Maidstone were engaged in a battle with about a dozen small gunboats under the command of Commodore Lewis. After a three hour battle the American gunboats succeeded in their task of allowing a large contingent of small merchant packets and coasters to pass unmolested past the British warships. At the conclusion of the battle two 74 gun British ships arrived on site and the American forces retreated towards Guilford. The Sylph continued throughout June to make trouble on the Sound. She joined the Maidstone and Belvidera, another frigate, along with the La Hogue, one of the 74 gun ships that had arrived in the Sound in attacking more and more vessels.
In early June the Sloop Nancy was located along near Northville, Long Island when the British arrived, attempting to land marines to destroy the vessel. They were beaten off by the local militia under Capt. John Terry who shot at the marines from the bluffs. Soon after the Sylph arrived and bombarded the cliffs with cannon fire. She was joined by another ship, likely the Maidstone, and together they attempted to drive off the American militia and take the ship, but in the end were unable to capture the Nancy.
The HMS Sylph from a Model—Courtesy of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England
On June 23, 1814 an early submarine, called the "torpedoe boat" was forced ashore near Horton Point, Southold after her line was cut in an effort to save a man who went overboard. The boat arrived on shore and over the course of the next few days her crew tried to get her off the beach. In the meantime, word was received by the Sylph and Maidstone of the boats arrival and they set course for her. On Sunday, June 26th, 1814 the Sylph and Maidstone arrived off of Horton Point and launched several small barges (or skiffs) with armed men intent on destroying the "torpedoe boat." Several members of the Sag Harbor militia who were present fired upon the British, who took at least four men either killed or wounded. The militia was forced to retreat and the British succeeded in landing on the Beach and burning the "torpedoe boat." The boat was one of the earliest forms of submarine to be engaged in naval battles.
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NORTH FORK ARTISTS
This is a list of artists we know lived, worked or exhibited on the North Fork of Long Island before 1970. We are always interested in seeing works by these artists which may relate to the area. For detailed biographies on these artists, please see (or purchase) our award winning publication, "A Shared Aesthetic: Artists of Long Island's North Fork" (2008).
Helen G. Adams (1907-1978)
Alice Wheeler Albertson (Born c. 1934)
Juanita R. Ambs (1896-a. 1952)
Mario Antonazzi (1921-2004)
William James Aylward (1875-1956)
Marguerite Frances Baird (1890-1970)
Madeline Baker (20th century)
Milton Herbert Bancroft (1867-1947)
William Bartels (died after 1969)
Madeline Horton Bassarear (1891-1988)
Frederick ‘Fred’ Bateman (20th century)
William Gifford Beal, N.A. (1879-1956)
Reynolds Beal, N.A. (1867-1951)
Caroline Van Hook Bean (1879-1980)
Rachel A. Richardson Beebe (1897-1996)
Orlando Hand Beers (19th century)
Caroline M. Bell (1874-1970)
Edward August Bell, N.A. (1862-1953)
Julia Fitz Overton Bell (1879-1966)
Virginia Bell (20th century)
Franklin Bennett (1908-2005)
Grace Bentley (born c. 1937)
Robert Berks (b. 1922)
Virginia Berresford (1902-1995)
Phil Berry (20th century)
Frank Alfred Bicknell, A.N.A. (1866-1943)
Charles F. Bittinger, N.A. (1879-1970)
Bart John Blommers Jr. (1880-a. 1935)
Oscar Florianus Bluemner (1867-1938)
Philip Boileau (1863-1917)
Margaret Boise (20th century)
Robert Ward Van Boskerck (1855-1932)
Frederick J. Boston (1855-1932)
Joseph H. Boston (1860-1954)
Mei Savage Brady (1921-1999)
Irma N. Braham (1890-1970)
Ruth Hirsch Brall (1906-1957)
Adam Brenzinger (b. 1883)
Walter Cole Brigham (1870-1941)
Joseph Brode (20th century)
Rev. John Henry Brodt (1827-1875)
Elliott Alvah Brooks (1888-1949)
Franklin Glover Brooks (1886-1955)
Josephine M. Brooks (1910-2002)
Matilda Browne (1869-1947)
George Mathew Bruestle, A.N.A. (1871-1939)
Helen Burden (20th Century)
Gertrude Burgess (20th century)
Minnie S. Burleigh (1868-1943)
George Brainerd Burr (1876-1952)
Bryson Burroughs, N.A. (1869-1934)
Lewis J. Carpenter (1937-1975)
Elizabeth Case (b. 1873)
John William Casilear, N.A. (1811-1893)
Frederick Edwin Church (1876-1975)
Kate Freeman Clark (1875-1957)
Roland Hunt Clark (1874-1957)
Lewis Cohen, A.N.A. (1857-1915)
Mabel Cooley (1871-1952)
Edwin Smith Conklin (1877-1961)
Benjamin P. Conklin (1844-1913)
William T. Conklin (1811-1893)
Henry Nicholas Cordes (1902-1988)
Paul Cornoyer, A.N.A. (1864-1923)
Sarah L. Craven (b. 1889)
Gaspari Crochi (20th century)
Ray Crosley (20th century)
Alma Brooks Cummings (1913-1993)
Thomas Currie-Bell (1873-1946)
William Steeple Davis (1884-1961)
Mary Landon Dayton (1873-1956)
Estelle Bristow Dearborn (1868-1946)
Mauritz F. H. de Haas, N.A. (1832-1895)
Franklin Dehaven N.A. (1856-1934)
Maria Oakey Dewing (1845-1928)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing, N.A. (1851-1938)
Joseph Paul di Gemma (1910-2005)
William C. Dove (1910-1994)
Mrs. Harvey Duryea (20th Century)
Louis Michael Eilshemius (1864-1941)
Joyce Farnham (20th century)
Ralph Fanning (1889-1971)
Harry Fenn (1845-1911)
Richard Fiedler (b. 1945)
Benjamin Rutherfurd Fitz (1855-1891)
Harriet R. Fanning Fitz (1857-1935)
Harry Giles Fitz (1847-1939)
Marjorie Flack (1897-1958)
Thomas Flurry (1889-1984)
Lucy Hallock Folk (1869-1946)
Edward Hastings “Senator” Ford (1887-1970)
Alexander Forman (1834-a.1896)
Mary Fosque (20th century)
Raymond Freemantle (1894-1977)
Marshall T. Fry (1878-a.1944)
Mary Gay (20th century)
Sylvester Genin (1822-1850)
Virginia Hargraves Wood Goddard (1873-1941)
Electa Fanning Goodale (1867-1942)
Hollis W. Grathwohl (1908-1972)
Louise Grow (20th century)
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Karl Heinrich Gruppe, N.A. (1893-1982)
William L. Hagen (1893-1957)
Willa Hagerman (1877-1964)
Herbert Hale (1892-1968)
William Hale (19th/20th century)
Judy Hall (20th century)
Ella Boldry Hallock (1861-1934)
George W. Hallock Jr. (1916-1984)
Howard Hardy (1900-1988)
Louis Kinney Harlow (1850-1931)
Charles Harris (20th century)
Gabriel Harrison (1818-1902)
Frank K. Hartley (1881-1943)
William Howard Hart (1863-1937)
Joseph Beckwith Hartranft Sr. (1890-1982)
Marguerite S. Moore Hawkins (1881-1956)
Louise Tuthill Hay (1910-1989)
Harold A. Hedges (1932-1995)
Adelaide Moore Herrick (1871-1963)
Max Herrmann (1880-a. 1932)
Gerard Hesselgren Sr. (1883-1948)
Elizabeth Hiddink (1910-1989)
John William Hill A.N.A. (1812-1879)
William Hillyer (1815-1904)
Melita C. Hofmann (1907-1976)
Tabea Hofmann (1905-1954)
Harry Leslie Hoffman, A.N.A. (1871-1964)
Clara Moore Howard (1882-1961)
Clara Wells Howell (1888-1976)
Whitney Myron Hubbard (1875-1965)
Ralph Humphrey (1932-1990)
Dr. Leigh Harrison Hunt (1858-1937)
William Huston (1832-between 1914-1920)
Rose Hutchinson (1906-1992)
Mrs. Irving Johnson (20th century)
Nancy A. Corwin Julian (1816-1914)
John H. Kaelin (1901-1990)
Katherine L. Kellogg (b. 1886)
Robert ‘Bob’ Ketcham (20th century)
Susan Merrill Ketcham (1841-1929)
William Ruloff Kip (1876-1935)
Hortense Baisley Knox (1873-1953)
James Knox (1866-1942)
Gerda Tasgal Kliegman (1908-1996)
Isabelle Stuart Knobloch (1879-1959)
John M. Kolyer (20th century)
Maurice Koranievsky (1892-a.1958)
Hans Kownatzki (1866-1945)
Alice Asmus Kownatzki (b. 1870)
Florence Sidbury Kramer (b. 1915)
Helen M. Kroeger (1892-1986)
Otto J. Kurth (1883-1965)
Albert Eldridge Latham (1909-1976)
Alexander D. Latham Sr. (1892-1981)
Richard Lathers (1821-1903)
William Langson Lathrop, N.A. (1859-1938)
Cyril Arthur Lewis (1903-1994)
Ethel Listing (1901-1988)
David Cunningham Lithgow (1868-1958)
Robert Sampson Low (1890-1987)
Walter “Walt” MacDougall (1858-1938)
John Marin (1870-1953)
Frances Lillian Mast (b. 1868)
George Francis McAdams Jr. (1906-2010)
Ruth Rogerson McAdams (1901-1972)
Kathleen McGovern (20th century)
Arabella Kent Horseman Ogden McKee (1866-1959)
Joseph McKee (1849-b. 1930)
Julia Ellen (E. J.) McLarney (1844-1939)
Henrietta Augusta Meday (1868-1967)
Marjorie Meyer (1911-1998)
Francis “Frank” Melville (1831/32-1916)
Dr. Charles Henry Miller, N.A. (1842-1922)
Gilbert E. Miner (1910-1999)
May Mitchell (19th/20th century)
Edward Moran, A.N.A. (1829-1901)
Edward Percy Moran (1862-1935)
John Leon Moran (1864-1941)
Matilda E. Morgan (1893-1975)
Agnes Mothersele (1898-1977)
Percy Wilbur Muncy (1885-1964)
Marion H. Nelson (19th/20th century)
Henry Hobart Nichols Jr., N.A. (1869-1962)
Robert Hogg Nisbet, N.A. (1879-1961)
Harold W. Olsen (1912-2007)
Julian Robert Onderdonk (1882-1922)
Betty Bierne Parsons (1900-1982)
Phillip Pavia (1911-2005)
William Rodman Pell II (1909-1995)
Sherrill B. ‘Rip’ Pemberton (1910-2004)
Clinton Dewitt Peters (1865-1948)
Mabel Spencer Peterson (1886-a. 1940)
Florence Picard (20th century)
Arthur Henry Prellwitz, N.A. (1865-1940)
Edith Mitchill Prellwitz, A.N.A. (1864-1944)
Edwin Mitchill Prellwitz (1896-1976)
Vincent James Quatroche Sr. (b. 1921)
Harold Radgiff (b. 1923)
Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell (1865-1915)
Henry Ward Ranger (1858-1916)
Dorothy E. Raynor (1905-1972)
George M. Reevs (1864-1930)
William F. Ritschel, N.A. (1864-1949)
Persis Weaver Robertson (1896-1992)
Miss M. E. Robinson (d. 1928)
William S. Robinson, N.A. (1861-1945)
Bruce Rogers (1870-1957)
Lurana Rogers (20th century)
Leo Roon (1892-1983)
Harry Hermann Roseland (1868-1950)
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Walter Orlando Rouland, A.N.A. (1871-1945)
Paul E. Saling (1876-1936)
Lillian Schelin (1919-1985)
Marie Schlecht (b. 1923)
Peggy Latham Strachan (1923-2010)
Jane Strom Schumacher (1920-2001)
Sarah Frances Shafer (b. 1878)
Charles M. Shean (1852-1925)
Benjamin E. Shepardson (1898-1954)
Aaron Shikler, N.A. (b. 1922)
Cora Billard Wickham Sibley (1884-1976)
Augusta Sittig (1865-1941)
Lewis Palmer Skidmore (1877-1955)
Helen Slottman (1898-1984)
Walter Granville Smith, N.A. (1870-1938)
John Stack (b. 1919)
Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997)
Charles Hobart Strickland (1859-1944)
Edgar J. Taylor (1862-c. 1940)
Allen Townsend Terrell (1897-1986)
Sandra Frisch Thornhill (1900-1983)
Harold Ledyard Towle (1890-1973)
Jules Turcas (1854-1917)
Abraham Guglielmus Dominey Tuthill (1776-1848)
Marjorie ‘Marge’ Tuthill (b. 1931)
Edith D. Vail (1876-b. 1930)
William Vail (1887-1968)
Charles Vezin (1858-1942)
Clark Greenwood Voorhees (1871-1933)
Dr. Lawrence Waitz (b. 1910)
Marion Wallace (20th century)
Everett Longley Warner, N. A. (1877-1963)
Nettie Waters (b. 1864)
Alfred Rudolph Waud (1828-1891)
Reginald Webb (1904-1985)
Carrie Lucinda Carter Wells (1867-1950)
Jennie Robertson Wells (19th century)
Loretta Wells (20th century)
William Howell Wells (1901-1991)
Isabelle Stow Wengenroth (1875-1962)
Stow Wengenroth, N.A. (1906-1978)
Henry Cooke White (1861-1952)
Nelson Cooke White (1900-1989)
George William Whitaker (1840-1916)
Julia Miller Wickham (1866-1952)
Nancy Wisseman-Widrig (b. 1929)
Irving Ramsey Wiles, N.A. (1861-1948)
Gladys Lee Wiles, N.A. (1888-1983)
Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905)
Rachel Ramsay Wiles (1827-1896)
John Wisseman (b. 1925)
Annie G. Young (1886-1978)
George Young (20th century)
Helene B. Young (20th century)
John Zalewski (20th century)
Robert ‘Bob’ Zoeller (1894-1978)
Sarah ‘Sally’ Zoeller (1899-1969)