Who said "Don't give up the ship" before dying?

James Lawrence said “Don’t give up the ship” before dying from wounds received aboard USS Chesapeake. He uttered the order during Chesapeake’s battle with HMS Shannon on June 1, 1813, in the War of 1812.

Lawrence was the American captain of Chesapeake. After Shannon’s gunfire badly damaged the ship and wounded him, Lawrence was carried below deck. Accounts preserve slightly different versions of his final command, including “Don’t give up the ship” and “Tell the men to fire faster; don’t give up the ship.” The exact wording varies, but the attribution to Lawrence is firmly established.

Chesapeake was boarded and captured shortly afterward, and Lawrence died of his wounds on June 4 in Halifax. His friend and fellow naval officer Oliver Hazard Perry later honored him with a large blue battle flag bearing the phrase “Don’t Give Up the Ship.” Perry carried the flag during the Battle of Lake Erie, where his victory helped make Lawrence’s words one of the best-known naval slogans in American history. Perry is therefore associated with the flag, but Lawrence is the speaker being asked about.