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Maryland Privateer Ship Carolina |
| Carolina | Commander John Angus |
| Sloop-of-War | 1 January 1783- |
| Maryland Privateer Ship |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 1 January 1783 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 19 April 1783/end of hostilities |
| Owners: | John Wright Stanly of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania |
| Tonnage: | 250 |
| Battery: | Date Reported: 1 January 1783 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 16/ Total: 16 cannon/ Broadside: 8 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 1 January 1783: 51 [total] |
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Comments:
The 250-ton Maryland Privateer Ship Carolina was commissioned on 1 January 1783 under Commander John Angus1 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.2 She was listed as being armed with sixteen guns and as having a crew of sixty men. Her owners are given as John Wright Stanly of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.3
Carolina made at least one voyage to Cuba. She was at Havana, Cuba on 21 July 1783, and sailed from there for Europe.4
1 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1781-1784, 48:334
2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 6
3 Archives of Maryland: Journal and Correspondence of the Council of Maryland, 1781-1784, 48:334
4 The Pennsylvania Evening Post, and Public Advertiser [Philadelphia], Tuesday, August 12, 1783, datelined New York, August 9
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