HMS Tenedos (1812) was a 38-gun fifth rate launched in 1812 and saw action on the eastern American coast during the War of 1812. 
Service.
"Tenedos", part of a fleet under the command of Sir Philip Broke, was assigned to patrol of the coast near Boston Harbor in April 1812. In August of the same year, the "Tenedos" lost seven men in an engagement with irregular forces off Mount Desert Island, Maine.
While harbored at Halifax, Nova Scotia "Tenedos" during a severe winter storm on 12 November, broke free of her moorings and almost collided with two ships nearby.
The brig "Sarah", R.Pendergrast, master, which had been sailing from New York to Amsterdam when captured her on 19 February 1813. "Sarah" had been carrying a cargo of 425 bales of cotton, 186 barrels of post ashes, and 3000 pipe staves.
"Tenedos" was part of a fleet that captured the USS "President" on 15 January 1815, just outside New York Harbor.
On 17 February 1815 the War of 1812 ended when the US Congress ratified the Treaty of Ghent and "Tenedos" returned one month later from patrolling the Eastern seaboard to Halifax in Nova Scotia for the final time. In August 1815, "Tenedos" returned home to Chatham. She was used as a convict hulk at the Royal Naval Dockyard in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda from 1843 and was broken up in 1875.
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