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HMS Fantome was an 18-gun
brig-sloop of the
Royal Navy. Originally a French privateer brig named
Le Fantome, she was captured by HMS
Melampus in June 1810 and commissioned into British naval service.
Fantome sank near the village of
Prospect, Nova Scotia on
November 24,
1814. The brig was escorting a convoy from British-occupied
Castine, Maine to
Halifax, Nova Scotia during the
War of 1812. Two
schooners from the convoy were lost at the same location and two other vessels from the convoy went aground elsewhere on the same night. No lives were lost when the ships sank. Some treasure hunters have claimed the convoy which the
Fantome was escorting was laden with goods taken from the
White House during the British raid on
Washington, DC. However
Fantome played no part in the Washington raid and most historians feel the convoy was carrying goods and customs revenue from Castine. The site of
Fantome's loss is marked today by an inscription on a large granite boulder near the wreck site at Prospect.
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