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New Hampshire Privateer Ship Dispatch




Dispatch

Commander Nathan Nichols

Armed Ship

9 November 1781-

New Hampshire Privateer Ship


Commissioned/First Date:

9 November 1781

Out of Service/Cause:


Owners:

Ichabod Nichols et al of Exeter, New Hampshire


Tonnage:


Battery:

Date Reported: 9 November 1781

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

6/

Total: 6 cannon/

Broadside: 3 cannon/

Swivels:


Crew:

9 November 1781: 21 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Ship Dispatch was commissioned on 9 November 1781 under Commander Nathan Nichols of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as having a battery of six guns and a crew of twenty men. Dispatch's $20000 bond was signed by Nichols and by Eliphalet Ladd and Nathaniel Giddings, both of Exeter, New Hampshire.1



1 NRAR, 270


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