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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Ruth




Ruth

Commander Jonathan Jewett

Armed Brig

10 August 1780-

New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine


Commissioned/First Date:

10 August 1780

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Date Reported: 10 August 1780

Number/Caliber  Weight        Broadside

6/

Total: 6 cannon/

Broadside: 3 cannon/

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10 August 1780: 16 [total]


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New Hampshire Privateer Brigantine Ruth was commissioned on 10 August 1780 under Commander Jonathan Jewett of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with six guns and as having a crew of fifteen men.1



1 Claghorn, Naval Officers of the American Revolution, 166


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