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South Carolina Privateer Brig Polly |
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| Polly | Commander Paul Preston |
| Armed Brig | 12 December 1776-9 March 1777 |
| South Carolina Privateer Brig |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 12 December 1776 |
| Out of Service/Cause: | 9 March 1777/captured by HM Sloop Badger’s tender |
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| Cruises: | (1) Charlestown, South Carolina to the West Indies, winter 1776-1777 |
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Comments:
South Carolina Privateer Brig Polly was commissioned on 12 December 1776 under Commander Paul Preston.1 She evidently made a voyage to the West Indies in the winter of 1776-1777. On 9 March 1777 she was at Turks Island, when a small tender from HMS Badger, with six 4-pounders, three swivel guns and twenty-five men under Lieutenant Philip Trott RN, slipped in and captured her. She was sent into Port Royal, Jamaica.2
1 NDAR, “Privateer Commissions Granted by Governor John Rutledge of South Carolina,” VII, 467-468
2 NDAR, “A List of Rebel Vessels Taken by the Squadron of His Majestys Ships & Vessels . . . at Jamaica,” VIII, 161-162, “Gazette of the State of South-Carolina, Monday, May 12, 1777,” VIII, 956-957
| Posted 6 February 2011 |
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