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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Phoenix




Phoenix

Commander David Coates [Coats]

Armed Brig

10 April 1780-

New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

10 April 1780

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Date Reported: 10 April 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

16/

Total: 16 cannon/

Broadside: 8 cannon/

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10 April 1780: 46 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Phoenix was commissioned on 10 April 1780 under Commander David Coates (or Coats) of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Phoenix was listed as having a battery of sixteen guns and a crew of forty-five men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 63


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