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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Blossom |
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| Blossom | Commander Thomas Manning |
| Armed Sloop | 31 May 1782-[February] 1783 |
| New Hampshire Privateer Sloop |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 31 May 1782 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | [February] 1782/captured by the British |
| Owners: | John Langdon of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 31 May 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 8/ Total: 8 cannon/ Broadside: 4 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 31 May 1782: 16 [total] |
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| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Montserrat, French West Indies, [June] 1782-[June] 1782
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| Prizes: | (1) Brig Christiana, 1782 |
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Comments:
New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Blossom was commissioned on 31 May 1782 under Commander Thomas Manning of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as having a battery of eight guns and a crew of fifteen men. Her $20000 bond was signed by Manning and John Langdon and Richard Salter, both of Portsmouth.1
Manning made a voyage to Montserrat in the French West Indies. He loaded a cargo of rum and sailed for Portsmouth on 26 July 1782, arriving in his home port on 9 August 1782.2
At some time subsequent to this Blossom captured the brig Christiana, which was sent into Portsmouth where she was libeled.3
This was probably the vessel commanded by Manning when he was at the Grenadines or Grenada, in the French West Indies, in February 1783. Five days after he sailed for home, Blossom was captured by the British and was taken into Antigua.4 Manning was released with the cessation of hostilities and managed to obtain the command of a a ship “under Imperial colours,” in which he arrived at Portsmouth on 7 May 1783. She was from “Ostend, but last from St. Kitts . . . with a valuable cargo of West Indian and European goods.”5
1 NRAR, 241
2 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday,August 10, 1782
3 McManemin, Captains of the Privateers, 365
4 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, March 29, 1783
5 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, May 10, 1783
| Posted 26 May 2011 |
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