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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Active |
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| Active | Commander Charles Bulkley |
| Armed Sloop | 22 May 1781-3 October 1781 |
| Connecticut Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 22 May 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 3 October 1781/sold out of service |
| Owners: | John Wright & Co. of Wethersfield, Connecticut |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 22 May 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 10 August 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 12/3-pounder 36 pounds 18 pounds Total: 12 cannon/36 pounds Broadside: 6 cannon/18 pounds Swivels: |
| Crew: | 22 May 1781: 61 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Schooner Hazzard, 10 August 1781, with Connecticut Privateer Sloop Randolph and Connecticut Privateer Schooner Young Cromwell |
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Connecticut Privateer Sloop Active was commissioned on 22 May 1781, out of Wethersfield, Connecticut, with a battery of ten guns and a crew of sixty men. Her commander was Charles Bulkley of Wethersfield,1 Colchester and New London, Connecticut.2 Her $20,000 bond was executed by Bulkley, and by John Wright, and Justus Riley, both of Wethersfield.3
On 10 August 17814 or the next day5 the British schooner Hazzard6 with a cargo of lumber, from the Penobscot River, Massachusetts [Maine] to New York was captured, with the assistance of the Connecticut Privateer Sloop Randolph (Commander Augustus Peck) and Connecticut Privateer Schooner Young Cromwell (Commander William Reed).7
Active was listed among the privateers belonging to New London on 10 August 1781. She was said to be armed with twelve 3-pounders.8
Active was laying at a wharf in New London on 6 September 1781, with one of her masts out for repair. That was the day of Benedict Arnold’s raid. Among those participating in the land action was her commander, Charles Bulkley.9 Active was set on fire and heavily damaged during the raid.10 She was advertised for sale on 24 September, with the sale to be held on 3 October 1781.11
1 NRAR, 219; Emmons, 127
2 Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 48-49
3 NRAR, 219
4 Middlebrook, History of Maritimw Connecticut, II, 48-49
5 Middlebrook, History of Maritimw Connecticut, II, 247
6 Middlebrook, History of Maritimw Connecticut, II, 48-49
7 Middlebrook, History of Maritimw Connecticut, II, 247
8 The New-York Gazette; and The Weekly Mercury, Monday, August 20, 1781
9 McManemin, John A., Captains of the Privateers during the Revolutionary War, Ho-Ho-Kus Publishing Company: Spring Lake, NJ, 1985, 18, from the narrative of Charles Bulkley.
10 Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During the Revolution, II, 48-49
11 The Connecticut Gazette and the Universal Intelligencer [New London], Friday, September 28, 1781
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