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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Betsey |
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| Betsey | Commander Benjamin Lurvy |
| Armed Sloop | 24 February 1779-1 February 1781 |
| New Hampshire Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 24 February 1779 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 1 February 1781/transferred to Massachusetts commission |
| Owners: | [Tristram Dalton et al of Newburyport, Massachusetts] |
| Tonnage: | [80, 100] |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 24 February 1779 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 24 February 1779: 11 [total] |
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Comments:
The 80 or 100-ton1 New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Betsey was commissioned on 24 February 1779 under Commander Benjamin Lurvy of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as having a battery of four guns and a crew of ten men.2
This sloop, it seems, had formerly been commissioned as the Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey (Commander Enoch Coffin) on 10 October 1777. She was commissioned again, under Lurvy, on 1 February 1781, as Massachusetts Privateer Sloop Betsey.
1 Currier, John James, History of Newburyport, Mass. 1764-1905, Newburyport: 1906. I:639
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 190
| Posted 26 May 2011 |
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