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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Hero




Hero

Commander Kinsman Peverly

Schooner

4 August 1778-

New Hampshire Privateer Schooner


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4 August 1778

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Date Reported: 4 August 1778

Number/Caliber   Weight         Broadside

5/

Total: 5 cannon/

Broadside: 2 cannon/

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4 August 1778: 36 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Hero was commissioned on 4 August 1778 under Commander Kinsman Peverly of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as being armed with five guns and as having a crew of thirty-five men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 240


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