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Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner Adventure




Adventure

Commander John McIlnoe

Schooner

20 June 1779-

Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner


Commissioned/First Date:

20 June 1779

Out of Service/Cause:


Owners:

Benjamin Towne and John Bartholomew & Co., all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania


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Battery:

Date Reported: 20 June 1779

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

6/

Total: 6 cannon/

Broadside: 3 cannon/

Swivels:


Crew:

20 June 1779: 21 [total]


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Pennsylvania Privateer Schooner Adventure was commissioned under John McIlnoe of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a bond of $10000 being given by the commander and owner Towne. Her battery was listed as six guns and her crew as twenty men.1



1 NRAR, 221. Emmons, 127, lists her commander as “J. McCleave.”


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