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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop/Cutter Greyhound |
| Greyhound | Commander Thomas Roach [Roache] |
| Armed Sloop | 30 July 1781- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Sloop/Cutter |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 30 July 1781 |
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| Owners: | Samuel Sherburne and Keith Spence of Portsmouth, New Hampshire |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 30 July 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: Date Reported: 17 August 1781 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 6/ Total: 6 cannon/ Broadside: 3 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | (1) 30 July 1781: 36 [total]
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| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 6 August 1781-16 August 1781
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| Prizes: | (1) Brigantine General Haldiman (Lemuel Goddard), [10] August, 1781
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New Hampshire Privateer Sloop Greyhound was commissioned on 30 July 1781 under Commander Thomas Roache of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Greyhound was listed as being armed with six guns and as having a crew of thirty-five men. Her $20000 bond was signed by Roache and by Samuel Sherburne and Keith Spence, both of Portsmouth.1
A recruiting advertisement appeared in the Portsmouth newspaper for the “cutter” Greyhound on 30 July 1781. She was called a “remarkably fast-sailing” vessel and was preparing to sail on a ten week cruise, departing on 1 August 1781. The advertisement was signed by Thomas Roach, and dated 27 July.2
Greyhound sailed on her cruise about 6 August, but she wasn’t gone ten weeks. Only ten days later Roach returned to port, having taken three prizes in ten days. Two of the prizes safely arrived in Newport. Both were from New York, New York to Quebec with cargoes of salt, tobacco, cotton and coffee. The 100-ton brigantine General Haldiman (Lemuel Goddard) and the 100-ton brigantine Edwards (John Peeples) were both libeled on 20 August, with their trial set for 3 September 1781.3 An advertisement for the sale of the prizes and part of the cargoes appeared on 27 August, with the sale to be held the next day.4
Greyhound’s owners prepared to immediately get her out to sea. Another recruiting advertisement, date 17 August, appeared in the newspaper on 20 August. Greyhound was to sail on 23 August on a six week cruise. She was said to have six guns and forty men were wanted aboard.5
Greyhound was soon back out at sea. She captured the 70-ton brigantine Admiral Durrell (Peter Nightingale), bound from Guernsey in the Channel Isles to Quebec, with a cargo of brandy and wine. The prize was sent into Portsmouth, arriving on 13 September 1781. She was libeled the next day, being listed at 90 tons, with her trial set for 1 October 1781.6
1 NRAR, 322
2 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, July 30, 1781
3 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Monday, August 20, 1781
4 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Monday, August 27, 1781
5 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Monday, August 20, 1781
6 The New-Hampshire Gazette, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, September 15, 1781
| Posted 17 June 2011 |
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