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Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Success |
| Success | Commander Nathaniel Perley |
| Schooner | 15 August 1776- |
| Massachusetts Privateer Schooner |
| Commissioned/First Date: | 15 August 1776 |
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| Owners: | Nathaniel Perley, Richard Derby, Jr., and Jonathan Peele of Salem, Massachusetts |
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| Battery: | Date Reported: 15 August 1776 Number/Caliber Weight Broadside
Total: Broadside: Swivels: four |
| Crew: | 15 August 1776: 16 [total] |
| Description: |
| Officers: | (1) Lieutenant Adam Welman, 15 August 1776-; (2) Lieutenant Amos Hilton, 15 August 1776- |
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| Prizes: | (1) Sloop Hero (Jabez Perkins), [September] 1776
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Comments:
Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Success was commissioned on 15 August 1776 under Commander Nathaniel Perley of Salem, Massachusetts. She was listed as being armed with four swivel guns and as having a crew of fifteen men. Her $5000 Continental bond was signed by Perley and by Richard Derby, Jr. and Jonathan Peele, Jr., both of Salem.1 Adam Welman served aboard as a Lieutenant,2 as did Amos Hilton.3
It is clear that Success proceeded to sea very soon after her commissioning. She captured at least two prizes and got them safely into port. The 70-ton sloop Hero (Jabez Perkins),4 bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Antigua, British West Indies, with a cargo of fish,5 was libeled in the Massachusetts Maritime Court for the Middle District on 26 September 1776. Her trial was scheduled for 15 October 1776. The 60-ton sloop Lord Howe (Elisha Coffin) was libeled on the same day and tried in the same court on 15 October.6
1 Allen, Massachusetts Privateers of the Revolution, 291
2 MASSRW, 16:853
3 MASSRW 7:924
4 The Independent Chronicle [Boston], Thursday, September 26, 1776
5 Faibisy, A Compilation of Nova Scotia Vessels . . ., in NDAR, X, 1201-1210
6 The Independent Chronicle [Boston], Thursday, September 26, 1776
| Posted 25 February 2011 |
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