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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Irish Gimblet |
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| Irish Gimblet | Commander George Thamston |
| Schooner | 1 August 1780- |
| New Hampshire Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 1 August 1780 |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 1 August 1780 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside 4/ Total: 4 cannon/ Broadside: 2 cannon/ Swivels: two |
| Crew: | 1 August 1780: 26 [total] |
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| Cruises: | (1) Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, [5] August 1780-20 August 1780 |
| Prizes: | (1) Schooner Rosanna (Waitstill Lewis), 20 August 1780 |
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Comments:
New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Irish Gimblet was commissioned on 1 August 1780 under Commander George Thamston of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with four guns and as having a crew of twenty-five men.1
Irish Gimblet was at sea soon after, for she captured the 20-ton schooner Rosanna (Waitstill Lewis) on 20 August 1780. Rosanna was brought into Portsmouth, where she was libeled the next day, 21 August. Her trial was set for 19 September 1780.2
1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 306
2 The New-Hampshire Gazette; or State Journal, and General Advertiser [Portsmouth], Saturday, September 2, 1780
| Posted 24 July 2011 |
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