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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Hibernia




Hibernia

Commander Benjamin Conner

Armed Brig

8 August 1780-

New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

8 August 1780

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Date Reported: 8 August 1780

Number/Caliber   Weight         Broadside

8/

Total: 8 cannon/

Broadside: 4 cannon/

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8 August 1780: 33 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Hibernia was commissioned on 8 August 1780 under Commander Benjamin Conner, possibly of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with eight guns and as having a crew of thirty-two men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 69


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