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New Hampshire Privateer Ship Harrison |
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| Harrison | Commander James Johnson [Johnston] |
| Frigate | 3 April 1780- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Ship |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 3 April 1780 |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 3 April 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 20/ Total: 20 cannon/ Broadside: 10 cannon/ Swivels: |
| Crew: | 3 April 1780: 131 [total] |
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| Prizes: | (1) Sloop Eagle (James Townsend), June 1780 |
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Comments:
New Hampshire Privateer Ship Harrison was commissioned on 3 April 1780 under Commander James Johnson [Johnston], of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with twenty guns and as having a crew of 130 men.1
Harrison captured at least one prize, the 200-ton sloop Eagle (James Townsend). Eagle was sent into a port in Massachusetts, where she was libeled in the Maritime Court of the Middle District on 26 June 1780, and tried on 25 July 1780.2
1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 168
2 The Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal, Monday, June 26, 1780
| Posted 12 July 2011 |
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