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H		 New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Humbird




Humbird

Commander Samuel Rice
Schooner

5 September 1778-
New Hampshire Privateer Schooner


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5 September 1778
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Date Reported: 5 September 1778

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Swivels: six

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5 September 1778: 26 [total]

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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Humbird was commissioned on 5 September 1778 under Commander Samuel Rice of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She was listed as being armed with six swivel guns and as having a crew of twenty-five men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 256


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