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Massachusetts Privateer Ship Adventure |
| Adventure | Commander Hector McNeil |
| Armed Ship | 22 November 1780- |
| Massachusetts Privateer Ship |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 22 November 1780 |
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| Owners: | Hector McNeill of Boston, Massachusetts |
| Tonnage: | 300 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 22 November 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 22 November 1780: 46 [total] |
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The 300-ton1 Massachusetts Privateer Ship Adventure was commissioned under Hector McNeill of Boston, Massachusetts, with a bond of $20000 being given by McNeill and Stephen Hall and John Shattuck, both of Boston. She was listed as being armed with six guns and as having a crew of forty-four men.2 McNeill was the ex-Continental Navy Captain cashiered from the Navy. He had also previously commanded the Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Pallas.3
1 McManemin, Continental Captains, 311
2 NRAR, 221. Also listed in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 68; Emmons, 127
3 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 204
| Revised 10 December 2008 |
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