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P		 New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Porgie




Porgie [Porgee, Paughey]

Armed Brig

Commander Sylvanus Lowell
New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine

14 October 1779-

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14 October 1779
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Date Reported: 14 October 1779

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

4/

Total: 4 cannon/

Broadside: 2 cannon/

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14 October 1779: 11 [total]

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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Porgie [Porgee, Paugey] was commissioned on 14 October 1779 under Commander Sylvanus Lowell of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with four guns and as having a crew of ten men. Porgie was re-commissioned, under Lowell, on 17 July 1780.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 190


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