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Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Captain |
| Captain | Commander John Donaldson [Dollanson] |
| Armed Brig | 9 February 1781-16 September 1781 |
| Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 9 Feruary 1781 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 16 September 17812/captured by HM Frigates Æolus and Vestal |
| Owners: | Benjamin Needham et al of Salem, Massachusetts |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 9 February 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10 Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon Swivels: Date Reported: 16 September 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 10 Total: 10 cannon/ Broadside: 5 cannon Swivels: |
| Crew: | (1) 9 February 1781: 41 [total]
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| Cruises: | (1) Salem, Massachusetts to Salem, Massachusetts, 14 August 1781-15 August 1781 |
| Prizes: | (1) [unknown] (Pomroy), 14 August 1781 |
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Comments:
Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Captain was commissioned on 9 February 1781 under Commander John Donaldson [Dollanson]of Salem, Massachusetts. Her battery was listed as ten guns and her crew as forty men. Captain's $20000 bond was executed by Donaldson and Benjamin Goodhue and Benjamin Needham, both of Salem.1
Captain sailed on 14 August 1781 from Salem, and, in twenty-four hours was back with the notorious Loyalist Pomroy, captured with his privateer and thirty-two sailors. He was six days out from the Penobscot River.2
Captain was back at sea soon after. On 16 September 1781 she was near St. Johns, Newfoundland where she had the misfortune to meet HM Frigates Æolus and Surprize, just starting a cruise. Captain was captured and sent into St. Johns, where she arrived on 18 September. The British reported that she had six guns and a crew of thirty-two men aboard.3
1 NRAR, 246; also listed in Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 91
2 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 91; The Providence Gazette and Country Journal, Saturday, September 1, 1781, datelined Boston, August 27, 1781
3 The London Gazette, Tuesday, October 16, to Saturday, October 20, 1781; Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 91, indicates she was captured in 1782.
| Posted 1 July 2008 |
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