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Massachusetts Privateer Brig Aurora




Aurora

Commander [Robert] Caldwell

Armed Brig

1782-

Massachusetts Privateer Brig


Commissioned/First Date:

1782

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Date Reported: 1782

Number/Caliber  Weight           Broadside

10/

Total: 10 cannon/

Broadside: 5 cannon/

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1782: 76 [total]


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Massachusetts Privateer Brig Aurora was mentioned as being at sea in 1782 under a Commander [Robert?] Caldwell. She was listed as being armed with ten guns and as having a crew of seventy-five men.1

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1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 77