The sloop Essex Junior, formerly the British whaler Atlantic, Captain Obadiah (or Obed) Wier (or Wyer, of Nantucket), was captured by the frigate Essex, Captain David Porter, off the Galapagos Islands on 29 April 1813. Porter took Atlantic to use as a tender, named her Essex Junior, and placed her under the command of Commander John Downes. The British recaptured her on 28 March 1814 when the captured Essex. They then sent Essex Junior to New York as a cartel.
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