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New Jersey Privateer Boat Active |
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| Active | Commander Adam Hyler |
| Armed Boat | June 1782- |
| New Jersey Privateer Boat |
| Commissioned/First Date: | June 1782 |
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| Tonnage: | 14-15 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: June 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 2/ Total: 2 cannon/ Broadside: 1 cannon/ Swivels: four |
| Crew: | June 1782: 26 [total] |
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| Officers: | (1) First Lieutenant Bordewine, June 1782- |
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Comments:
The noted maritime guerilla Adam Hyler obtained a privateer boat named the Active in 1782. She was armed with two guns and four swivels, had a crew of twenty-five men and measured 14 or 15 tons. Hyler requested a commission for this boat on 26 June 1782. He was unable to see the governor of New Jersey himself, but sent his lieutenant, Bordewine, to obtain the commission. Hyler promised to give the bonds as soon as he could.1
1 McManemin, John A., Captains of the Privateers during the Revolutionary War, Ho-Ho-Kus Publishing Company: Spring Lake, NJ, 1985, 475-474, from letters of John Bray and Adam Hyler to Governor William Livingston.
| Revised 22 November 2008 |
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