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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Addition




Addition

Commander Joseph Pratt

Armed Brig

28 June 1780-

New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

28 June 1780

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Date Reported: 28 June 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

8/

Total: 8 cannon/

Broadside: 4 cannon/

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28 June 1780: 21 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Addition was commissioned on 28 June 1780 under Commander Joseph Pratt of Salem, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with eight guns and as having a crew of twenty men.1 She had been commissioned in Massachusetts on 17 June.2 [see Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Addition]



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 248

2 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 67


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