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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Flying Fish |
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| Flying Fish | Commander Josiah Shackford |
| Armed Brig | 29 August 1782- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 29 August 1782 |
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| Owners: | Woodbury Langdon of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 29 August 1782 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 29 August 1782: 26 [total] |
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| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Montserrat, French West Indies, [5] September 1782-[1 October] 1782
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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Flying Fish was commissioned on 29 August 1782 under Commander Josiah Shackford, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was reported as being armed with six guns and as having a crew of twenty-five men. Her $20000 bond was signed by Shackford and by Woodbury Langdon and John Parker, both of Portsmouth. Langdon was listed as her owner.1
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Bond and commission of Shackford and the Flying Fish. Interestingly, both forms are printed on the same sheet of paper. From Winslow, ‘Wealth and Honour’, 60. |
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Flying Fish made a voyage to the West Indies, sailing soon after her commission was issued. She was at Montserrat in the French West Indies by mid-October 1782. There Shackford picked up a cargo of rum and sailed for Portsmouth on 27 October, in company with the Massachusetts Privateer Brigantine Recovery (Commander Samuel Ingersoll), out of Salem. Three days out a large ship chased the two Americans, and they parted. Flying Fish arrived at Portsmouth on 19 November 1782. Extracts from Shackford’s log were published in the local paper on 23 November.2
1 Winslow, Richard E., “Wealth and Honour”: Portsmouth During the Golden Age of Privateering, 1775-1815, Portsmouth: The Portsmouth Marine Society, 1988, p. 60. An illustration of the bond and commission for the Flying Fish.
2 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, November 23, 1782
| Posted 19 May 2011 |
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