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Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Active |
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| Active | Commander Charles Alexander |
| Sloop-of-War [Sloop/Brig] | 21 May 1779- |
| Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 21 May 1779 |
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| Owners: | John Wilcocks & Co., of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 21 May 1779 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 14/ Total: 14 cannon/ Broadside: 7 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 21 May 1779: 41 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Schooner Nancy (Nathaniel Butterfield), [May] 1779 |
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Pennsylvania Privateer Brigantine Active was commissioned on 21 May 1779, out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a $10000 bond.1 Her commander, Charles Alexander, was a former Captain in the Continental Navy.2 Bonders were Alexander and Wilcocks. Active was noted as having a battery of fourteen guns and a crew of forty men.3
Active re-captured the schooner Nancy (Nathaniel Butterfield), about May 1779. Nancy had loaded corn and provisions in North Carolina and was bound for Bermuda, when she was captured by a British cruiser and sent off to New York. Nancy arrived at Philadelphia on 17 June 1779.4
1 NRAR, 218
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 2-3
3 NRAR, 218; Emmons, 127
4 The Pennsylvania Gazette, June 23, 1779
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