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Connecticut Privateer Boat Rattlesnake |
| Rattlesnake | Commander Gurdon Burnham |
| Patrol Craft | [1779]- |
| Connecticut Privateer Boat |
| Commissioned/First Date: | [1779] |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 19 April 1777 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside
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| Prizes: | (1) Lively (Ambrose Cleveland), [June] 1779, with Connecticut [Privateer] Boats Gull and Revenue
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Connecticut [Privateer] Boat Rattlesnake was under the command of one Gurdon Burnham of Hartford County, Connecticut, about the spring and summer of 1779. Sailing with the Connecticut [Privateer] Boat Gull (Commander Clement Bishop) and the Connecticut [Privateer] Boat Revenue (Commander Moses Butler), three prizes were captured: (1) the 40-ton Lively (Ambrose Cleveland); (2) the 109-ton Mayflower (Clark); and (3) the 96-ton John (John Warner).1
1 Middlebrook, II, 255-256
| Revised 20 February 2009 |
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