Adventure	Commander Samuel Smith, Jr.
Patrol Craft	1 June 1781-
Connecticut Privateer Galley

Commissioned/First Date:	1 June 1781
Out of Service/Cause:

Owners:

Asa Bray & Co. of Southington, Connecticut

Tonnage:

Battery:

Date Reported: 1 June 1781 Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels:

Crew:

1 June 1781: 31 [total]

Description:

Officers:

Cruises:

Prizes:

(1) Schooner Swordfish, July 1781, in Long Island Sound, with Connecticut Privateer Boat Revenge

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Connecticut Privateer Galley Adventure was commissioned under Samuel Smith, Jr. of Southington, Connecticut, on 1 June 1781, with a bond of $20000 being given by the commander and Asa Bray and Jonathan Root of Southington. She was listed as having a battery of six guns¹ (or six swivel guns)² and a crew of thirty men.³

In July 1781 Adventure captured the British schooner Swordfish in Long Island Sound,⁴ assisted by the Connecticut Privateer Boat Revenge (Commander Amos Judson). The Swordfish (or Sword Fish) was taken into Hartford, Connecticut, where she was tried and condemned as a re-capture on 30 August 1781.⁵

¹ NRAR, 222

² Emmons, 127

³ NRAR, 222

⁴ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 49

⁵ Middlebrook, Maritime Connecticut During The Revolution, II, 210

Revised 4 May 2012

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