In 1824, ferrymen from the Whitehall Landing at Manhattan's Battery raced a crew from the British frigate HMS Hussar for $1,000.
The seventh Hussar was a 38-gun fifth-rate launched in 1799 and wrecked on 8 February 1804 by grounding on a reef near the Île de Sein.
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