He was no more disgraced than Dacres when he surrendered the _Guerriere_ to a heavier ship, or than Lambert, dying on his own deck, when he saw the colors of the _Java_ hauled down.
The _Shannon_ took her prize to Halifax, and when the news came back that the captain of the _Chesapeake_ lay dead in a British port, the bronzed sea-dogs of the Salem Marine Society resolved to fetch his body home in a manner befitting his end.

Captain George Crowninshield obtained permission from the Government to sail with a flag of truce for Halifax, and he equipped the brig _Henry_ for the sad and solemn mission.

Her crew was picked from among the shipmasters of Salem, some of them privateering skippers, every man of them a proven deep-water commander.

It was such a crew as never before or since took a vessel out of an American port.

When they returned to Salem with the remains of Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow, the storied old seaport saw their funeral column pass through the quiet and crowded streets.