Rindlisbacher Marine Art

    The HMS St. Lawrence was a monster at the dock, even as seen here during winter in her partially de-rigged state.

    A quiet evening late in the war with moonlight illuminating thin ice and partially de-rigged ships. Stern cabin lights show sailors are still awake after the early nightfall. It would be late Februar

    The British squadron comprising the topsail schooner Lady Prevost, the brig General Hunter, and the corvette Queen Charlotte in company on a reconnaissance mission. The squadron held command of the L

   

    The government transport schooner Speedy off Brighton, Ontario. A precursor of the topsail schooners common in the War of 1812, Speedy was lost with all hands on October 7, 1804 in a ferocious gale i

    In its wartime shift as a British naval sloop, Little Belt takes a patrol up the Detroit River past the British fort. The small ship later tried to run from defat in the Battle of Lake Erie, but coul

    Two years after it was taken an American squadron attempted to remove the British from Fort Mackinac. The navy participated in a classic "softening up" of the shoreline area and landed boats filled w

    A late winer scene of the York (Toronto) waterfront. A spring attack by the Americans caused the destruction of this corvette before she could be completed and launched.

    Windsor, Ontario's modern street names pay tribute to this early wharf site on the upper Detroit River; McIntosh's mansion, called "Moy Hall, became Moy Street and Hall Street. This wharf and estate

    Nancy was but on the U. S. side of the river, just downstream of the palisaded town of Detroit, seen behind her in this painting. With the declaration of war, she was moved down to Amherstburg.