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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Rambler




Rambler

(1) Commander Joshua Moore

Schooner

21 May 1779-

New Hampshire Privateer Schooner

(2) Commander William Maley, Jr. [Maloy]
9 August 1780-


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21 May 1779

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Date Reported: 21 May 1779

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

 

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Swivels: six


Date Reported: 9 August 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

2/

Total: 2 cannon/

Broadside: 1 cannon/

Swivels: ten


Crew:

(1) 21 May 1779: 17 [total]
(2) 9 August 1780: 26 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Schooner Rambler was commissioned on 21 May 1779 under Commander Joshua Moore of Kittery, Massachusetts (Maine). She was listed as being armed with six swivel guns and as having a crew of sixteen men.1


Rambler was again commissioned, on 9 August 1780, under Commander William Maley [Maloy], Jr. She was listed as having two guns and ten swivel guns, and a crew of twenty-five men.2



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 211

2 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 193


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