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New Hampshire Privateer Ship Postillion




Postillion

Commander William Friend

Armed Ship

29 September 1779-

New Hampshire Privateer Ship


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29 September 1779

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Date Reported: 29 September 1779

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

8/

Total: 8 cannon/

Broadside: 4 cannon/

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29 September 1779: 21 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Ship Postillion was commissioned on 29 September 1779 under Commander William Friend of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with eight guns and as having a crew of twenty men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 116


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