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Maryland Privateer Sloop Adriana |
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| Adriana [Ariadne] | Commander Joseph Vesey |
| Armed Sloop | 8 October 1778-1779 |
| Maryland Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 8 October 1778 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1779/captured by the British |
| Owners: | Joseph Vesey of Boston, Massachusetts and North & Trescot of Charleston, South Carolina |
| Tonnage: | 60 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 8 October 1778 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 9/ Total: 9 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: six |
| Crew: | 8 October 1778: 49 [total] |
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| Officers: | (1) First Mate Philip Mann, 8 October 1778-; (2) Second Mate William Cain, 8 October 1778- |
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Comments:
Maryland Privateer Sloop Adriana was commissioned on 8 October 1778, out of Annapolis, Maryland, with a $5000 bond.1 Her commander was Joseph Vesey, a resident of Charlestown, South Carolina, and former veteran of the Continental Navy and the South Carolina Navy.2 First Mate Philip Mann was possibly from Annapolis, as was bonder John Rodgers.3 Adriana was listed measuring 60 tons, and as having a battery of nine guns, with six swivel guns, and a crew of forty-seven men. Her owners are given as Vesey and North & Trescott of South Carolina.4
Adriana was captured by the British in 1779. She appears in the High Court of Admiralty records as the Ariadne, described as an American merchant vessel deserted by most of her crew.5
1 NRAR, 220
2 Egerton, Douglas R., He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 14-15. According to NRAR, 220, he was a resident of Boston, Massachusetts.
3 NRAR, 220
4 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, April 1, 1778 through October 26, 1779, 21:215
5 HCA 32/273/8/1-2
| Revised 22 November 2008 |
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