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Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner Addition |
| Addition | (1) Commander John Craig |
| Schooner | 9 December 1778-[15 May] 1779 |
| Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner | (2) Commander James Spencer |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 9 December 1778 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1779/captured by the British |
| Owners: | Joseph Carson & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 9 December 1778 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 11 June 1779 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10/ Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | (1) 9 December 1778: 46 [total]
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Comments:
Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner Addition was commissioned on 9 December 1778, out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a $10000 bond. Her commander, John Craig, of Philadelphia,1 later commanded several other privateers.2 Bonders were William Marshall and Joseph Carson, both of Philadelphia. No owners are listed. Addition was listed with ten guns and a crew of forty-five.3 On 11 June 1779 this vessel was recommissioned with Commander Joseph Spencer of Philadelphia, and listing Joseph Carson & Co. as owners. Bonders were Carson and Daniel Edwards of Philadelphia. She listed the same battery with a reduced crew of thirty men.4
Addition was captured by the British in 1779, while bound for St. Eustatius, Netherlands West Indies. She was tried in the High Court of Admiralty in 1779.5
1 NRAR, 219
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 77
3 NRAR, 219
4 NRAR, 220. Emmons, 127, refers to her as a ship.
5 HCA 32/261/8/1-7
| Revised 22 November 2008 |
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